Router for 1-2gbps?

[efahl]

@kaivorth

N5105

Here's a recent post of mine on one of the aliexpress mini-pcs:

OpenWrt on old i7 PC?

I'm in the x86 camp myself (apu2e4 is my main router). I just ran some tests on my N5105 4xI226 2.5Gbe box running SNAPSHOT bare metal, and observed the following power numbers: Idle ~8.9w with active WAN + one sleeping LAN connection (this number is typical, I look at it many times every day). Woke LAN workstation, 9.1w. Started htop on router, power jumped to ~9.5-9.6 w. Started https://waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat test and saw ~14.0-14.4 w during download. Dropped to ~10.5-11.0 w during …