Comment on Sustainable network upgrade
TCB13@lemmy.world 11 months agoThere is 128MB of NAND and 8GB of eMMC… so does that mean one version is very barebones and the other version is feature-rich?
No. All versions have all features, the thing is that OpenWrt is modular and you can install thousands of packages from the repository just like in any Linux system. I would go with eMMC or an external SD card and call it a day. The advantage of the SD card is that it is easily replaceable.
Here is a detailed comparison of each storage and use cases: forum.banana-pi.org/t/…/4.
This is the BPI-R3 mini board I was referring to
Check this post here, apparently the BPi guys already provided a bunch of their own builds for the board. Eventually you’ll get an “official” OpenWrt image. It seems to be out of stock tho.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Say whaaaaat? Wow it’s sure evolved a lot since the last time I looked at it. I literally have a pair of WRT54G routers in my house running dd-wrt but my wife has been having trouble with one of them lately so I thought it might be a good time to start looking at upgrading. Wonder if I can get 20 years out of a banana pi? 😆 I do like the idea of just building my own box this time around and these boards look like some serious hardware so I’ll keep reading into it. Thanks for all the links and info!
TCB13@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well If the hardware doesn’t fail - something that also happens to the WRT54G - you might. After all the hardware is way more open, there aren’t any MIPS shenanigans and other restrictions that the manufacturer may have added.