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just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 days agoYou 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.
Nighed@feddit.uk 2 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.