Comment by vmurthy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by vmurthy | Hacker News Reader

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Looks like decent specs for a homelab (although not for "creators" :-P)

  SoC – MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) dual-core Cortex-A53 processor @ 1.3 GHz

  *Networking*

  - 2.5GbE RJ45 port

  - Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port

  - Dual-band WiFI 6 via MediaTek MT7976C (2×2 2.4 GHz + 3×3/2×2 + zero-wait DFS 5Ghz)

  - 3x MMCX antenna connectors

From TFA

"The router’s specifications have been selected with the goal of keeping the price under $100, and that’s why we have interfaces such as USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0 since there aren’t any spare ones in the Filogic 820 SoC"

2.5G is still plenty for most creator use cases (even for editing a few 4K livestreams off a NAS). The only difficulty is if you hit certain types of routing, performance can't always keep up (sometimes even to a gigabit).

One thing I'd love is if more vendors would give a bunch of examples and specifically list what things are hardware accelerated and which are not (MikroTik's been pretty good about this lately, though it's a lot of digging in docs).

Hey Jeff. Big fan of your channel :-).

What is the difference between a "homelab" and a "creator"? I don't think these labels mean anything.

Also you realize this is a router to connect to the internet right? If you want computers to have faster ethernet links between themselves you can have a switch with faster ports. It isn't going to make sense to try to mix your router and your switch at that point.

> What is the difference between a "homelab" and a "creator"?

lol. I meant it a bit tongue-in-cheek. A homelabber is someone who isn’t interested in showing off his/her videos of homelabbing. A creator is :-P

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