the Cyberroam CR25 seems interesting - how well is it handling Gig fibre traffic ?
Are there Openwrt stable builds for CR25
Sounds like a good (cheap) alternative for Pi4 solution and it comes with 4 ports.
The downside I guess is the size and noise, but if it hidden away
at ~13% of the full load, or 50% of one (out of four) core(s), tested using iperf.
it's x86, use the regular x86_64 builds.
Fan isn't very loud, it's about the size of a 8 port desktop switch, 1U high though,
which is pretty much the same as any regular 4+1 port home router, antennas excluded.
See Cyberoam CR25iNG / CR25WiNG wired router HW discovery for additional info.
Sounds really good
Cheaper, and less boxes than Pi solution. (Pi and separate 4 port switch).
I guess the only other thing is power consumption, assuming its similar to a device/router than x86 pc
Just need to pair it with an AP.
Any downsides to CR25?
At 1.7A I think it might actually be less than the Pi.
Would be the fan noise, I guess, but you need to be pretty picky 
But since they're used, fan sound can vary from unit to unit.
Hi if some one has a Cyberoam CR 25wiNG could they make a quick recording of the fans pleas. All so what power brick does it use. I can find one on ebay for £30 but it has no PSU with it.
there's only one fan.
your timing is bad, I sold mine yesterday, already shipped it.
mine came without PSU, but it's a 12V DC 5,5x2,5 center positive plug, .
Will a PSU from lets say a wrt3200acm work? I have one that is 2.5A How come you got rid of yours?
no idea, 2.5A is ok, the rest (voltage, DC plug size) who knows ...
It was bought (cheap) to do the discovery, see it it could be used for openwrt, which it was,
mission accomplished, move(ed) on
I have an AMD 5650G running on my router, already have additional routers on the shelf,
a Roqos RC10 and Trustwave TS-25, didn't need a 4th (should really sell the TS-25 too).
BTW op I think you should stick to the 200 down from VM that's what I am on and go for the rt3200. I am onley looking at the x86 router because I have about 8 or 10 routers as back ups. lol I am running a r7800 as my mane router and a r6260 as a dumb AP. I picked the r7800 up off ebay for £20
Can you just sysupgrade on x86 like you can on ath79 or ipq806x? Can you just flash from the stock webinterface?
if you use the squashfs, you can.
Those 4-port x86_64 routers/ UTM appliances behave just like your classic router, in pretty much every way - just that they usually don't have integrated WLAN. luci is present as normal, the four ethernet ports aren't on a switch, but individually accessible and can be bridged, bonded or used for VLANs, sysupgrade works as usual - and they aren't less stable either (11:13:30 up 30 days, 8:12, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - and the uptime is only that 'short', because I can't keep myself from doing sysupgrades).
Sorry, what does this mean:
the four ethernet ports aren't on a switch, but individually accessible and can be bridged, bonded or used for VLANs
Abit more fiddly to set up but essentially can work like a 'router'?
two of them will work as a router (lan & wan, ignore markings on the chassi, openwrt does), the additional two openwrt doesn't really know what to do with, so they'll remain unconfigured until you decide to make use of them.
...and in the most simple configuration, you can just add them to the lan bridge - so you end up with 3+1 ports (3*lan+1*wan), but any other configuration goes.
Ah OK. Of course, one will have to connect to modem so 3 ports spare.
Just need to find a cheapish AP for AC wifi
The only shame is the huge Virgin Hub 4. If only using it as modern, can't I get a much smaller one (needs to support 1 gig fiber)
Thanks, I'll take a look.
The power consumption of CR25 seems much higher than a Pi4.
A Pi4 is about 5w but it seems that CR is about 33W
Never seen a recommendation for a 1A (which would be the case for 5W) power supply for the RPi, which would indicate it could draw more power, and you still need an additional USB-ethernet adapter, which adds a couple mA.
But you're correct, I was thinking of 12V, not 5V, for the RPi, so it should use about 50% of the CR25.
That could be abit of an issue. - 33W. I don't know how to cost/work out energy usage and how much does the actually mean in terms of £/$.
I copy and pasted this, so the CR25 uses about twice an much electricity as old WRT610
In general, routers consume from two to 20 watts, depending on the model.
The Linksys WRT610, for example, uses two radios for dual-band wireless support, yet it draws 18 watts of power.
