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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You said you have a router from your old ISP that is going away when that ends, or did I misunderatand that part?

  An RPi can function as a router…sort of. It will not be a very good one though. Putting your network services on a device like the Flint I mentioned gives it all kinds of benefits over an RPi:

  • many Ethernet ports
  • ability to reassign hardware ports
  • hardware acceleration for network traffic
  • WiFi 6 (for that particular model, W7 for the newer)

  I can go and on with that one. RPi just doesn’t have the power to give the same kind of performance, especially since you mentioned having gigabit internet.

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ah sorry, my new ISP gave me a router, but it doesn’t have any VPN functionality on it. My old one probably can’t support the speed, and for some reason doesn’t let me change its MAC address, so I can’t use it as the ISP facing device.

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