So I’m trying to build a router. Just need something to handle the networking in my house and the plan is to separate things out via virtual local area networks. Anyway, reading a bunch of threads and comments, I think my design will be something akin to this. Is this good or bad? Ultimately I wanna run OPNSense since that’s what most people recommend, but wanna about x86.
NanoPi as a hub: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHU4JCV
AX3000 as an AP: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzPBBVX
Network Switch: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EITz5Gz
I guess it depends. The BananaPi guys work very closely with the OpenWRT people, if you notice they usually provide testing / dev boards to members of the community before releasing things, they commit code to the project and their routers are usually OpenWRT first. There’s also an upcoming OpenWRT router from them that has been designed in collaboration with OpenWRT developers.
NanoPi has Armbian which is fine and nice however if you want a router, great OpenWRT compatibility is certainly more important.
I have to disagree with this. That’s mostly hype and people who don’t know what they’re doing, there are good reasons do pick OPNsense at a medium size company with a large and complex deployment but certainly not at a smaller scale. Either way OpenWRT is highly modular and very well documented you can just install whatever you require.
I was reading the comments on the OpenWRT forums about the new router, even the people there feel it’s underpowered.
If it can run OpenWRT and PiHole, I’ll be happy.
What router? The OpenWrt One or the BPI?
The OpenWRT one
What were you expecting? It’s a thing designed to be under 100$, there are no miracles there. Get one of the BPI routers if you want performance. From time to time there are nice deals on aliexpress for those.