4 ms·
Its awesome that Pi's are finding their way into stuff like this but its still a tiny bit of round hole, square peg. You could do it for 1/2 the price with a T
by noonespecial 13y ago
Its awesome that Pi's are finding their way into stuff like this but its still a tiny bit of round hole, square peg.
You could do it for 1/2 the price with a TP-Link TL-WR703N and OpenWRT. Lots of these types of projects are already install-and-go ready for OpenWRT.
- zokier 13y agoIndeed, like the somewhat well-known "WiFi Pineapple": http://hackaday.com/2013/04/29/wifi-pineapple-project-uses-updated-hardware-for-man-in-the-middle-attacks/ http://hackaday.com/2013/04/29/wifi-pineapple-project-uses-u...
- threedaymonk 13y agoHaving done some hacking with those little TP-Link devices (well, on a TL-MR3020, which is almost identical), I will say that Debian on a Raspberry Pi is much easier to work with than OpenWRT on a TL-. With the TL- devices, you have very limited writeable storage, and as it's an append-only file system, the only way to reclaim the space is to reflash the system. A Pi, by comparison, feels like a normal computer system. Twice the price isn't necessarily a bad deal, unless you're working in such volume that development time is an insignificant part of the overall project cost. Given the choice, I'd go for a Raspberry Pi next time.