At this stage It’s no secret that we can make our own routers with the right hardware, something that also allows us to customize them and make them tailored to our needs, like equipping them with large storage capacity to use them as NAS too, for example.
Now, Banana Pi has released the BPI-R3an SBC board designed specifically for us to make our own router, wireless repeater, gateway or firewallalthough its reduced power and consumption –and the absence of image output— make it not very useful for general purpose computing, as would be the case with most SBC boards on the market.
Among its specifications we find a 2GHz quad-core MediaTek MT7986, 2GB RAM8GB of eMMC memory, a USB 2.0 Type-C port, two 2.5GbE ports, support for WiFi 6, two M.2 slots, connection points for wireless antennas, UART pins to communicate with the router in case of problems, and a slot for nanoSIM cards.
Undoubtedly, it is a very complete plate that will fulfill the majority of uses in which it is expected, usually with OpenWRTan open source firmware used very commonly in limited routers by telephone companies that gives us enormous freedom.
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