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Love the idea. Underwhelmed by the hardware choices.

Only two nics, and only one is 2.5Gbe. Wifi6 while 6E now and 7 is soon. What will probably be travel router level.

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Really jealous of all those who are annoyed this can't handle their >1Gbps internet connection...

I'm in Oslo, capital of Norway, and 500/15 Mbps is the fastest I can get...

What are people doing that their homes need so much bandwidth? My ISP offers Gigabit and I use their cheaper, third-tier, 200 Mbps option, since I cannot conceive of a use for more.

Off-site backups is a huge one. General downloads for the people running *arr software, and corresponding upload for people sharing their Plex libraries.

Here in france, I get 5Gb/700Mb for 50€ and there isn't a lower tier at the same ISP. Other ISPs would simply sell me 1Gb/700Mb for the same price, with no lower tier other than aDSL. Not that I'm complaining, but if I'm getting 5Gb, buying a router for 150€ that hits barely 1/5th of that speed (the maximum on wired this board can do is 1Gb, and I don't even have all my devices on 5GHz wifi) isn't exactly a good experience.

I'm pretty sure off-site backups would have zero issues at 200Mbps.

I would love 500/15.

Here in the UK I'm still stuck with BT who keep sending out flyers and public consultations saying they'll upgrade for about 5 years now, I'm assuming to try and dissuade altnets from coming through and taking away all their customers. They keep silently killing the plan after a year, and replacing with a new one for 2 years time so it never arrives.

50/15, not even that far out of a major town. Fucking BT.

UK altnets are spreading quite fast in areas that OpenReach (BT) hasn't upgraded yet, it is worth checking regularly what is happening in your area.

I have 500/500, could have 900/900 for £5 more per month.

Wow, I wish I had 50. 10/3 here in the Midwest USA. :)

That's shocking.. in Oslo? I'm out in the sticks in Norway and I've had 1Gb/1Gb for years. And it actually provides 1Gb too.

One of those cases where being first is a disadvantage. We've got cable, and it's been upgraded some, but because of that there's like zero incentive to get fiber.

Meanwhile my buddy is out in the bushes and he got 1G fiber like you a couple of years ago...

Why internet connection? The more obvious benefit would be for local connections, e.g. to a NAS.

Why would you need a router between your local PC and your NAS though? Just enable the firewall on your NAS if you're worried about that?

What do firewalls have to do with anything? You have your PC, your laptop, your partner's PC etc. and a NAS. They all connect to the switch/router.

Why would you even get a NAS if you only connect it directly to one PC? Then get a DAS or just external drives.

The ports aren't backed by switching hardware, so would have to get bridged in hardware. If you don't want to use it as a router towards the internet, just get a 2.5G switch would likely be more performant and future proof given this only has two RJ45 ports.

Like the parent, I'm annoyed at just Wifi 6, when 6E is out and 7 is around the corner. However, the feature of 6e (and 7) that I need is the new, larger 6Ghz band for stable performance in a crowded urban environment with hundreds of ISP configured routers all crowding the same few groups of channels on the 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz bands. For me, 6ghz is far more stable than 5Ghz (or 2.4).

Fair point. Personally I'd rather have the Wifi in a separate device, given that things change relatively often there, and have three RJ45's.

Really excited for the news, but then really dissapointed at the same time.

I thought it has several RJ45 and SFP ports, similar specs to Banana Pi R4 based on the provided picture, apparently it is only for illustration purpose [1][2].

Hopefully this will spurs more complete support and drivers for the BPi boards including the R4.

[1]Banana Pi BPI-R4:

https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R4

[2]Banana Pi BPI-R4 Low-cost Router SBC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646382

The picture isn't of the planned board, I'm pretty sure it's just a picture of a banana pi r4. The proposed board has no SFP, for starters.

If this one does well, I would expect further developments. Bananapi has the capacity to do lots of board designs, they have a huge backlist; so it's down to the openWRT team to see how many they have the capacity to do with them and support.

Agree. I’m running a N5105 w 4x2.5g that was $150 on AliExpress. 2x2.5g is the minimum I would do for a homelab

look at the bpi-r3 and bpi-r4

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=banana+pi+bpi-r4

the bpi-r4 even has two 10gb sfp ports

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