On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:57:02PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'm not sure I can actually
> use it, but if I do, I now know where to buy them from.
> 
> I also got a reply about the USB (I don't know if it was to me
> direct or to the list, so I'll just say thanks and summarize to the
> list):
> 
> The model A has a single USB port on the board. It is connected
> directly to the USB type A port.
> 
> The model B also has the single USB port. It is connected to a three
> port hub. The hub is connected to the two USB type A connectors and
> a USB ethernet interface.
> 
> So the USB bandwidth is shared between both type A ports and ethernet.
> 
> I was speaking today to someone who is in contact with people
> working downward in the same direction I am working upward. I was
> looking at taking a Raspberry Pi and building an application on it.
> 
> The people he was speaking to already had the application running on
> X86 hardware and were in the process of porting it to DD-WRT routers
> and the Raspberry Pi. They are having problems because the single
> USB port does not provide enough bandwidth

I'm a bit surprised that the USB bandwidth is the bottle neck here. Do
you actually get that much of network traffic and USB traffic?

> 
> In my case it may be possible as I only want to go one direction,
> they were going two.

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