I have used the Raspberry Pi 4B as an openwrt router and I’m thinking of doing the same in a project. The Pi 5 is available but the 4B is still cheaper. Which would you recommend getting?
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If you find yourself needing more CPU horsepower, try the 5. If you don’t, stick with the 4.
Pi 5 does have hardware crypto if you wanted to run a vpn server on it as well
Buy a Banana PI R3 or NanoPi as the RPi does not have enough lan ports, almost same spec
Do you use it with a single network port or do you add interfaces, via USB? Wasn’t there a performance limitation at least on the USB ports? Maybe the 5 has better specs here?
Did you look into GL.inet routers? The have OpenWRT under the hood? At their web shop cheaper than at Amazon.