On 6 September 2016 09:33:58 BST, Miguel Tavares <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hello Max, > >Thx for the reply. APU2 looks interesting more for a home server than >just to serve as a firewall to the home IoT and multimedia devices. > >I was actually looking more into a small router/firewall. I found out >that there's some options, like rooting a small tp-link router I >already >own or just buying a router that already comes with OpenWRT by default. >This last options are considerably more affordable (~30€) than an APU2 >(~130€). The possible drawback is that the firmware probably contains >binary blobs (I'm not sure if it does, I couldn't find out yet). >
Some of the really cheap routers (including many tp-link) have trouble powering some USB devices. If you plan to use USB devices (especially modems) then you need to limit the choices. After having bad experiences with tp-link, I bought a more expensive Buffalo and have been happy with it. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
