[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[DJ-Pfulio]

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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