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…

Apparently the Fujitsu S920 paired with a PCIe NIC can verifiably handle 6 Gbps, and maybe 10. Allegedly for $50 total. [Cheap & Capable pfSense/OpenWRT Machine! Fujitsi S920 Router Review]

[image] plane_wave: Allegedly for $50 total. Even less, but you need to make sure you get the quad core CPU version, the dual core have issues powering the card with the additional ports. [image] Fujitsu Futro S920 - Help with troubleshooting stability/reboot issues Hardware…

[image] frollic: Even less, but you need to make sure you get the quad core CPU version, the dual core have issues powering the card with the additional ports. Have you measured the power consumption? Is it really as the video claims below 15 W? If so, this seems like a clear winner. 10 Gbps…

I don't own one, I'm using an AMD 5650G as router, CPU alone is 65W TDP. Try posting in the thread I linked to.

[image] fakemanhk: Getting one of these from AliExpress probably cheaper? I would say, depends on your location and what you are choosing. Often not really cheaper, primarily these kind of boxes are just much smaller. Though more recent PC parts would have been more expensive. Note that I we…

Now it's already more choices on hardware, in older days when I built my first one in 2016, I have to ship the Jetway NF9HG-2930 (Celeron N2930 + 4x Intel GbE) + M350 case from US, but I would like to say it's expensive but really really a solid one because it's industrial grade, my box is still wor…

Found another discontinued Intel based SD-WAN network device selling cheap on ebay. Has 6 Gigabit Network ports, 8GB ECC DRAM and both CF card and 2.5" SATA SSD. Silver Peak EdgeConnect EC-XS is branded Lanner FW-7551A that currently has multiple listings under $50. Device details on WikiDevi

Rangeley is a good thing, if you compile a custom build with Intel QuickAssist you can have a very high performance OpenVPN router (it works much faster than AES-NI). However just as other Avoton/Rangeley, the Atom C2000 family has CPU bug that might die anytime (I already have 1 dead motherboard)

I've got lasy time Lenovo thinkstation M920Q with i5-8500t 32 giga of ram and 2TB nvme ssd with mellanox cx4 dual 25gig im nice money, very nice setup. iI've pit esxi with openwrt on vm , lighting fast setup.

what's your daily power consumption ? :roll_eyes:

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