slh
July 19, 2022, 9:07pm
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It's such a frequently asked question over the last few years that we really need a post we can point people to.
So your cable company rolled out 500Mbps or 1Gbps download speeds, or you have 1Gbps symmetric fiber (GPON/EPON) from ATT or Centurylink or Orange or whoever. You realize your old all in one router from 2009 is not up to the task of handling this, but hey by now stuff should be cheap and available that will handle your new fiber connection right? So you want advice about a router for…
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While I was watching for old stuff I could play with on ebay I noticed that a few sellers are offering a few "cloud managed routers" (i.e. if you don't pay a subscription they are paperweights) from a company called "simplewan" that looked oddly familiar.
here some pictures (from auctions, not mine) they are bright orange.
[simplewan 3]
[simplewan2]
[simplewan 1]
The images are a dead giveaway, these devices seem to just be a branded version of PCEngines APU1 (the ones with black USB 2.0 p…
would be the starting poinst (no, not the ancient APU2-APU6).
Especially with >>1 GBit/s in mind, you're quickly down to (non-Atom) x86_64, which can be a valid competitor, both on prices and idle power consumption (if chosen wisely).