[SGVLUG] Current Raspberry Pi info

[Jess Bermudes]

Yeah, and if you go that route, I've got an Archer C7 with OpenWRT that I'm
selling for a low, low price!

(That's a joke for the people who were in the room when I released the
magic smoke from it)

But apparently, while the Ethernet jack will only give you up to the
theoretical 100Mbps, the underlying USB 2.0 Bus can still serve the
theoretical 480Mbps, so this one guy was able to get more performance and
use up to 321Mbps by simply plugging in a USB 3.0 to gigabit adapter:

http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking

It would be interesting to see if you could plug in two of them and get
~150Mbps on each adapter.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think most people do not make pis into gateways, as it is pretty limited
> bandwidth as the "native" ethernet port is actually a usb to ethernet
> adapter. Instead I would say run openwrt on router hardware.
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Dustin Laurence <dllaurence at dslextreme.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I know that a while back some of you were doing a group Pi buy, so maybe
>> someone knows some answers for this question:
>>
>> I'm thinking I need a Pi as an energy-efficient little server; it seems
>> one should be more than enough computer to run squid and dnsmasq.  I'd
>> be tempted to make it the gateway as well, but I don't see any native
>> dual-headed Pi's.  I'm sure this has been done before--is the standard
>> solution to use a USB ethernet adapter, to find a third-party add-on
>> board, or to not use a Pi for a gateway?
>>
>> Dustin
>>
>>
>>
>
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