Looking to upgrade my old tplink ac1900. Was quick browsing for openwrt and found the banana pi r3. Does anyone have one? or opinions about it? Just looking for a general consensus that it is effective and reliable. Other suggestions are welcomed but don’t need a debate ;)
I don’t have any insight into the hardware you mentioned but I wanted to say that I put opnsense onto a low powered computer a few years ago and love it. It is extremely configurable and easy to use with some pretty good documentation out there.
Old thin clients and mini PCs are great for this. Many either have a half sized PCIe slot or can take a second network interface using the WiFi m.2 slot and a 3d printed bracket to mount the nic port.