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Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The LAN and WAN ports aren't labelled as such on the device and can be configured to do anything. The 2.5Gb port can also be used to take in PoE so for a lot of people - myself included - this will be the only port that's actually used, or at least the port that will be used the heaviest. The reason, I think, that it's configured as WAN by default is so that the LAN port can be used to plug a laptop in directly without disconnecting the whole network.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

This person knows openwrt haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It doesn't matter. Port configuration can switch around and the bottleneck is still there. Traffic with in the broadcast domain (i.e. subnet) will handled by the switch alone.

There is WiFi onboard so it can have some actual benefits, depending on design and how user access resources, but how likely you're going to saturate that 1/2.5G link? Not even you stream some 4K movies from Plex to iPhone will does that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you might have missed the point: with a managed switch that 2.5Gb port can be used to handle multiple WAN and LAN connections simultaenously. My home network includes two WANs and six LANs split purely by VLAN tagging and that 2.5Gb connection should handle all of them just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Which I do specified "in the broadcast domain". Sure you can use it with VLAN but that more than the scenario I'm describing.