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Raspberry Pi 5 router (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by bogdan2011@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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?

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[–] bityard@alien.top 3 points 1 year ago

If you find yourself needing more CPU horsepower, try the 5. If you don't, stick with the 4.

[–] tschloss@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Do 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.

[–] ffimnsr@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Buy a Banana PI R3 or NanoPi as the RPi does not have enough lan ports, almost same spec

[–] sunneyjim@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Pi 5 does have hardware crypto if you wanted to run a vpn server on it as well