6GHz seems a starting point nowadays, although I get by with 5GHz.
If the BPi can be extended with add-on cards for exactly this area,
that's a great starting point also.
Ideally sub $100 for any product.
* Packages with cases+PSU are a must for broader acceptance, and to
prevent fatigue from having to buy several parts to get a working system
that can be wall/ceiling-mounted. This is an implicit advantage to
buying OTS routers: everything needed is there. An expensive ecosystem
becomes a limiting factor for adoption.
* Having a few H/W variants available provides demand metrics: which
variant is more in demand and popular speaks to what people want.
* CPU which manages line-speed WireGuard is very important nowadays:
with governments monitoring people, users demand privacy afforded by VPNs.
Wi-Fi is still inherently limited by the closed-source nature of the
Wi-Fi blobs: will those ever be open sourced? It'd be brave, but the
right way. ( Lots of IP )
On 2024-01-09 11:49, John Crispin wrote:
tl;dr
In 2024 the OpenWrt project turns 20 years! Let's celebrate this
anniversary by launching our own first and fully upstream supported
hardware design.
If the community likes the idea outlined below in greater details, we
would like to start a vote.
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