Banana Pi is currently selling a fully built Wi-Fi 6 router with some solid features for just $30 excluding shipping via Ali Express. The router uses OpenWRT firmware and a dual-core Arm A9 processor-based Triductor TR6560 SoC with Triductor’s TR5220 WiFi 6 chipset.
The company has been selling this WiFi 6 router board on its own, but now you can buy a ready-to-use unit in the EU or US that includes an enclosure for the board with six external antennas, an Ethernet cable, and a power adapter. Now it looks like this. plug. The only difference here is that his one of the LAN ports has been removed.
The specifications of the Banana Pi BPI-Wi-Fi 6 router are as follows:
- SoC – Triductor TR6560 dual-core Arm Cortex-A9 processor @ 1.2 GHz with LSW (line card switching) and hardware NAT up to 5 Gbps
- WiFi Chipset – Triductor TR5220 WiFi 6 Chipset
- System memory – 512 MB DDR3
- Storage – 128MB SPI NAND Flash
- networking
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet WAN port (with optional PoE support)
- 3x Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
- 2.4 GHz WiFi 6 (802.11ax) 2×2 MIMO up to 573.5 Mbps
- 5 GHz WiFi 6 (802.11ax) 2×2 MIMO up to 2401.9 Mbps
- 4x external antennas
- WiFi supports AP and STA modules, WPA, WPA2, WPA3 security
- Debug – 6-pin debug UART header
- Others – Power button, Reset button, WPS button, 9x LED
- Power supply – 12V DC via power barrel jack
- Dimensions – SBC: 137 x 107 mm
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This router supports 802.11ax bandwidth protocols and offers WPA3 password protection. Power over Ethernet is optional and can be added via module, but must be soldered. Banana Pi’s wiki page specifies that 2.4G signals will operate up to 40 meters and provide 573.5 Mbps of bandwidth, while 5G will operate up to 160 meters and up to 2,401.9 Mbps.
Banana Pi responded to a question on YouTube that they sell router boards with OpenWRT firmware pre-installed, so it’s safe to assume this will be the same for fully built routers.
OpenWRT is currently finalizing the router specs it will hand over to vendors, but as it is based on the MediaTek SoC and has a specific feature set aimed at costing around $100, the specs are Very different. At the time of this writing, no further information was available about the OpenWRT One router, but all Banana Pi had to do in this case was sell its existing router board as a complete package. . According to the Github logs, the code was written 7 months ago by him and his RC8 SDK was updated 2 months ago.
This router doesn’t have any special features, but it’s much cheaper than many other routers sold in retail stores. At the moment, this is only sold on China-based e-commerce websites such as Ali Express, but a much higher-spec Banana Pi board-based router is currently being sold as a kit via Amazon, and is likely Firmware needs to be uploaded. manually.
