And MikroTiks can be purchased for much less and not require any assembly
and work great.
https://mikrotik.com/products
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:34 PM, pete M <petem001(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> they are not really hard to assemble. The power can be provided by a
> picopsu 150 watt is usely more then enough
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http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT
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> <http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-150-XT>a small form factor box can be
> use:
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http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure
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> and they can be bought for cheap already assembled.
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http://www.mini-box.com/Mini-ITX-systems-x86
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> part de Rob Janssen <pe1chl(a)amsat.org>
> Envoyé : 11 mai 2018 13:13
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> Objet : Re: [44net] OT: Recommendations for a small to medium size router
> for a multi-purpose repeater site
>
> > I would go with a small itx pc with dual gygabit nic and a 4 port pcie
> gygabit nic. that give you 6 nic in a box.
> > Run this under Openwrt, or opensense or pfsense. You could even run
> miKrotiK OS
> > you can have a small ssd in there and 4 gig of ram to be sure all is ok
> and this setup would be able to do all of your need and even more.
>
> Of course it also uses more power, and takes more effort to construct and
> install.
> It can sometimes be useful to have more flexibility, but for general
> router usage it usually is overkill.
> Those MikroTik boxes work after unpacking and some basic config tasks.
> However you can still spend hours and hours
> to make them do a lot more :-)
>
> Rob
>
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