[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Alex Carver]

I only want one. :P

Solomon's idea of a mini-ITX isn't too bad.  I found some fanless ones
for about $200 just now Atom based with dual GigE and even real serial
ports (perfect for attaching a GPS to act as the network NTP master
clock).  I'll have to investigate further.

On 2015-09-02 14:25, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> http://store.netgate.com/APU1D4.aspx
> $169/ea  but only in qty 100 or more.  Major upgrade from the Alix 2D13
> series.
> 
> I've purchased from netgate before. They are the US reseller for PCEngines.
> 
> On 09/02/2015 05:12 PM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:23:22PM -0700, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> wireless.  I still need to find a single-board system that has dual GigE
>>> NICs.  I don't want to do Ethernet-over-USB if possible.
>>
>> GigE PHYs are still relatively power-hungry, and SBCs with dual GigE 
>> ports (and crucially, sufficient oomph to drive them at speed) tend to 
>> still not be cheap because they're targeted at industrial users.
>>
>> That said, I had a pretty sweet board in-hand nearly ten years ago, 
>> built around an IBM PPC440GX part that did all of that.
>>
>> This one's the best I found after a cursory search:
>>
>>  http://www.gateworks.com/product/item/ventana-gw5520-single-board-computer
>>
>> Dual 800MHz ARM Cortex A9
>> 512M RAM, 256M flash
>> Dual GigE, MiniPCIe, and USB2.0
>>
>> All for about $400. Uses about 3W to run, plus whatever you plug into 
>> its ports.
>>
>> If not for the power consumption downside, I'd say just grab an mini-itx 
>> board.  You can easily get everything you want for under $300 (including 
>> a case/PSU and plenty of storage) and you'll also spare yourself the 
>> headaches from dealing with embedded ARM SBCs.
>>
>>  - Solomon
>>
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