Raspberry Pi 5 router
Raspberry Pi 5 router
I have used the Raspberry Pi 4B as an openwrt router and I'm thinking of doing the same in a project. The Pi 5 is available but the 4B is still cheaper. Which would you recommend getting?
If you find yourself needing more CPU horsepower, try the 5. If you don't, stick with the 4.
3Pi 5 does have hardware crypto if you wanted to run a vpn server on it as well
1Buy a Banana PI R3 or NanoPi as the RPi does not have enough lan ports, almost same spec
1Do you use it with a single network port or do you add interfaces, via USB? Wasn’t there a performance limitation at least on the USB ports? Maybe the 5 has better specs here?
Did you look into GL.inet routers? The have OpenWRT under the hood? At their web shop cheaper than at Amazon.
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