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I built a firewall/router out of this board, with Linux and shorewall. It took a trick with the installer to get it to go, but it's run for a couple of years now without hardly a thought. I love it.

http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1d4.htm

I agree with the separation comment, but you can buy a radio for this board, and make it do wifi as well. The case even has pre-cut holes for the antennas. I've thought about doing it just for the fun of it.




I love the APU2, but it draws 5 times more power than my TP Link.


At 11 cents/kWh for electricity, and an average load of 9W, that makes the APUD14 cost a whopping $8.67 per year to run. I'll gladly trade $7 over the course of a whole year in order to have a general-purpose OS on which I can run all sorts of interesting things.


Power is three times as expensive over here. It's a very poor trade.




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