Looks like another decent contender for the "traffic shaping at 1Gbps+" problem, once it is fully supported by OpenWrt... it is however indeed a bit pricy and will compete with second hand thin client x86 devices. Still even there the 2 2.5 Gbps ports will easily make the T6 look quite competitive. (And certainly better suited than the otherwise decent raspberry pi5, which comes with a single 1 Gbps ethernet port and hence needs even more add ons to operate as router, let alone at 2.5 Gbps).
Its more like a mini-pc than a router, but it has the full rk3588-chip which probably has a higher idle than the rk3588s. But I've not seen someone test it, so can someone enlighten us ?
If you can buy it directly from China it would be a lot cheaper, like my R6S, the price I bought from China is almost a half of the price selling in AliExpress
I believe price of those also going up a bit these days, I remember the R6S I got a year ago was about US$120, I bought R2S/R4S together and including the shipping total cost is half price when compared with AliExpress.
China's territory is indeed very large, but it has a developed transportation network. The postage between any two cities within China is generally $2 - $5 USD.
Even you ship it outside China, it's still cheaper than using AliExpress, using TaoBao just needs Chinese language so if people can read/write then you can get it cheap.
I bought using TaoBao and ship to my country (not within China), which is basically same as AliExpress however everything is in Chinese, you also need to use Chinese to talk to sellers, which was something I did to get the low price.
That still does not make it special. x86 hardware is cheaper on taobao as well, so the price difference will not make it a better value. Nanopis just became way too expensive for what they are.
When you find a x86 without a fan that does not have an intel management engine or AMD's equivalent with equal or lower energy consumption for an equal or lower price, we'll talk.
then its paying double for me I'm afraid.
