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Raspberry Pi Zero as a router (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I do not know whether I should ask here. Even though I am still thinking about turning my not-used RPI Zero into a router. Now I have an old Archer C6 v2 with OpenWRT and sometimes happen router turns off after connecting the PC. I know it is possible to do it, but I wonder whether RPI would be able to hold the traffic better than the Archer. I should point out, that traffic means a Proxmox server with 2 Linux VMs and 4 PVEs, a television, and 4 Wi-Fi connections. I am thinking about configuring OPNsense on the RPI as well. Would it work or do you have better ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nah, even if it didnt have throughput issues it would be far more effort than necessary to set up.

My recomendation, get a used Linksys WRT1200AC and put openwrt on it. It's basically as if they put a raspberry pi 3 into a linksys router, it has much more processing and memory than most cheap routers and you can get it used for about $50.