Hi,

Ubiquiti Router Station Pro came up to "End of Life".

It was my first trial using RS pro for a custom application and i don't know a lot about router boards so i'm looking for advices with what to replace it. I used RSpro with an XR5 card (32-bit mini-PCI Type IIIA) and made a bridge between ethernet and wifi, the fact there are 4 ethernet port was very convinient for me too (avoiding to add a switch and its power supply).

So do you have any references to advice in replacement of RS pro with XR5?

I've found 2 references
alix6f2, http://pcengines.ch/alix6f2.htm
Laguna GW2388-4 Network Platform http://www.gateworks.com/products/laguna/gw2388-4.php (at first view i prefer this one)

What do you think about it?

Thanks for answers,
Julien

How about jjPlus.
http://www.jjplus.com/?page_id=181
It's supported by openwrt, similar spec to RS.

Yes it looks good.
Does anyone have other advices?

You should bother to write down the features you want to have. I don't know the ones of your Routerbla.

What features you could be looking for

Overall System Configuration

•CPU Atheros AR7161 MIPS 24Kc running @ 680MHz
•MEMORY DDR 128MB
•FLASH SPI 16MB
•4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
•Three MINI-PCI Slots supports Type IIIA
•USB 2.0 Host
•Built in RS232/dB9 Connector
•SDIO
•On board Real Time Clock "RTC"
•DC Power Jack
•802.3af 48V compatible
•Power Supply Range 40VDC to 56VDC **(15VDC to 56VDC In reality)**
•Ethernet Interface •J1 Single WAN port 10/100/1000 •J2 Tripple LAN Port 10/100/1000
•Supported IO UART J3 6 pin Header Terminal Settings 115200 baud, 8 bits, nor parity, 1 stop bit.

and details http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/routerstation.pro

That's the specs of the Pro board indeed, but which of those features do you *need*?
And please if you want good advise, separate what you would like from what you need.

I need

•4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch  *to connect few ethernet devices without adding a switch
•2 MINI-PCI Slots supports Type IIIA  *Until now i used one on my first trial with omni antenna, i'd like to use 2 to extend my cover range

I'd like to be able to run rfid (rs232 connection)
•Supported IO UART J3 6 pin Header Terminal Settings 115200 baud, 8 bits, nor parity, 1 stop bit.

I'd like to
run a small web service on it.

I'd like to keep the voltage power supply i already used
•+24VDC (+/-2VDC)

thanks

Does anybody have a recommendation for a similar board that can provide 802.3af to 4 LAN ports, and preferably has a USB Host?

Hi,

I used to work with RouterStation too. Now I'm looking for a recent board that supports OpenWRT. My requirements are not too tight, but the board must have either an integrated Wi-Fi radio (neither USB nor SDIO host interface) or one (or more) PCIe slot(s). Other specs:

1xEthernet
1xUSB
GPU, HDMI, etc. are welcome, but not required.

All interesting things I've found so far use USB or SDIO for the Wi-Fi (e.g. miniand products, gooseberry, wandaboard, etc.). jjPLUS [1] look fine, but I'd prefer a better CPU...any recommendations, please?

[1]: http://www.jjplus.com/?page_id=2297