Looking for successful PC hardware configuration for FIOS

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Has anybody here built a PC (of any size) to use as a primary router (don't need wifi) for use with 1Gb/s FIOS?

I figured there might be some people who have already built one here before I go out and start randomly buying hardware.

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There are som additional suggestions after the pc engines posts.

I'd probably go for the CR25ing/cr25wing on ebay, or roqos rc10, but they're harder to find.

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thanks! That's helpful!

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found quite a few listing

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Thanks for the suggestions. It had not occurred to me that I could use a Pi4 with Gig adapter though. I have one of those unused that could adapt. Probably better to use that than to build a PC or buy something on ebay.

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Yeah, they're quite common in US and UK.

I've bought one (non w), for $20, but haven't received it yet.

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@frollic why can't use just use a simple unmanaged gigabit switch with rpi4, instead of using USB to ethernet?

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For doing what?

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Jeff mentioned a few use cases here. RPi4 to be used as router and add one of these USB drives as a Wifi stick

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You need two interfaces. One for WAN and one for LAN. Rp4 only has one gig ethernet port. You would need to use an adapter with the rp4 USB 3 port to have two NIC interfaces.

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What @Danathar says, you could probably also do a single port, and VLANs, but that's probably not worth the hassle, considering an USB ethernet adapter is less than 10$/€.

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Oh yea, I suppose you could do VLANs. That would certainly be interesting. That being said, if you don't already own a managed VLAN switch with tagging capability it would be more expensive to get the switch than a USB 3 adapter to have two real NICs.

https://louwrentius.com/raspberry-pi-as-a-router-using-a-single-network-interface.html

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USB 3 on rpi4 does affect the wifi or other equipment, I personally experienced it with rtl-sdr radio.

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Yea, I've read something similar here

https://louwrentius.com/raspberry-pi-as-a-router-using-a-single-network-interface.html

Good to read somebody else who has done this though. Seems viable.Thanks!

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and there is another solution too, which are actually based on OpenWrt.

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Yeah, but that's going to be more than 10$/€.

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Yes. When I upgraded my connection, I setup a x86_64 with an e1000e dual port NIC made from old and spare parts.

(Mine cost $0 of course, if you have to make purchases, shop wisely!)