Router boards these days are a commodity, with all the available consumer access points using the same SoC and hardware on a different PCB with their own plasti

Router boards these days are a commodity, with all the available consumer access points using the same SoC and hardware on a different PCB with their own plastic case. A single SoC often provides 1) MIPS processor, 2) Ethernet MAC, 3) Switch in ASIC, 4) WiFi MAC See also: http://www.eeboard.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/AR9331.pdf http://www.eeboard.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/... You can buy off-the-shelf complete systems ready to be dropped in a plastic case, or even complete (and very commodity) systems: http://routerboard.com/ http://routerboard.com/ I'd love to see a RaspberryPi-style approach to home access points using the popular MIPS SoCs, with pfsense (https://pfsense.org/ https://pfsense.org/).