Recommendation for 1Gb router available in Singapore

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
1

I'm based in Singapore, so many recommendations that I've seen before in this forum have prohibitive shipping costs or have no available shipping

Minimum Requirements

  • Support OpenWRT (of course)
  • Support SQM on 1Gb ISP link (ethernet, symmetric up/down)
  • 4xGb ethernet ports (including WAN), ideally more
  • Budget: up to USD300 including shipping
  • WiFi not needed

If there's no specific recommendation meeting my requirements, then what minimum hardware qualities should I check for on platforms such as AliExpress?

  • Celeron supporting AES-NI
  • 4xCores @ 1.1GHz
  • memory and storage don't seem to be an issue
  • anything else?
2

I guess Qotom series would fit your requirements

3

May I ask the basis of this recommendation?
Have you tried this as a router or seen it as a router in the real-world? What were the positives and what were the negatives?

Apologies if I sound aggressive with this question, I don't want to invest money and quite a bit of time for a partial solution.

Edit: I checked the specs of the product and the Celeron 3215U CPU does not support AES-NI

4

Routing 1 GBit/s WAN speed already requires a lot of CPU power, limiting your options to a rather small set of devices. SQM increases this problem significantly, pointing quite heavily at x86_64 (~core i5). Four 1000BASE-T ethernet ports break the camel's back, leaving you with e.g. the aforementioned qotom series or the odroid h2+ && H2 Net Card - or something in that general direction.

Next stop, a good (OpenWrt supported-) router to be used as dedicated access point(s).

6

No, I haven't tried it but as @slh write with your requirements you would need x86_64 > i5 and they produce that in a quite compact way. And they have versions with 4 Gb Ethernet and are available on Aliexpress.
So they tick all your boxes.

If you don't want to spend that money then go with a Nano Pi R4S and a managed switch to get 4 ports.