78 points by yamrzou 5 days ago | 71 comments
Sanzig 4 days ago
This setup has been in place about a year now and just works. The Pi can handle about 50 Mbit bidirectional over WireGuard, which is suffient even for a couple of 4K media streams. I am planning to duplicate this setup at some other relatives' homes.
j-krieger 4 days ago
For some reason, even with ram-only fs and all common tricks, my Sandisk SD cards keep failing. Do you have any tips?
vinni2 4 days ago
kstrauser 4 days ago
EasyMark 4 days ago
NavinF 4 days ago
That should be enough for 10 years under a typical Pi workload like writing and compacting logs.
sweeter 4 days ago
NavinF 4 days ago
telgareith 4 days ago
Of course, choose your power supply badly and both those sub 10W machines will be 50W at the wall.
sweeter 4 days ago
Sanzig 4 days ago
Their free tier is pretty generous because it's basically a way for Tailscale to get homelabbers hooked on the product so they'll recommend a corporate plan at work. They even state as much: https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan
The Pi 3 was essentially free to me because I already had it on a shelf. When I duplicate this setup at some other relatives' homes, I'm planning on using an Orange Pi Zero 3 ($30 CAD, quad core A53, gig of RAM, gigabit Ethernet).
NavinF 4 days ago
allset_ 4 days ago
NavinF 4 days ago
- You're replying to a thread about someone using a 1GB Pi 3 to stream multiple 4K movies. It's $44 on Amazon including fast shipping. Cheaper on eBay if you can wait 3 days.
- The 8GB Pi 4 is $75 on canakit, not $160.
Anyway if you want more compute (on an edge device? why?), why not grab a AM4 board and CPU for like $80 each? That's 25W at the wall and gives you a ton of flexibility if you later wanna repurpose the machine adding GPUs, NVMe, SAS enclosures, etc
gruez 4 days ago
To be fair once you add in shipping, a sd card card, power supply, case/heatsink, and you'll get to around 160.
NavinF 4 days ago
Why would you need a heatsink unless you use a case? Why would you use a case? That price tag is entirely self inflicted
yamrzou 4 days ago
whatevermom 5 days ago
abound 5 days ago
I don't have one of their travel routers, but I have a Flint 2.
EQYV 4 days ago
abound 4 days ago
sandreas 4 days ago
If this is too expensive, you could also go for a NanoPi R4S[3], but I wouldn't. The N6S is worth the additional cost.
If you need wifi, there is the R5C[4].
1: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
2: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128
3: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
4: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
danieldk 4 days ago
Runs their fork of OpenWrt with a user-friendly interface (though LuCi is also available) and you can also flash vanilla OpenWrt. They also have smaller travel models.
Of course if you use stuff that needs to run on the CPU (like Cake), then the R6S will be faster.
sandreas 4 days ago
For traveling I use a Gl.inet Beryl (GL-MT1300), which is nice, but not very powerful. Nowadays I would probably go for a GL-MT3000[1], if there wasn't the NanoPi R5C, which is small, powerful, supports OpenWRT and has Wifi.
As a note: I thought about having Wifi via USB, but the stability and performance of USB-Wifi is nowhere near the integrated / miniPCIe stuff. So if wifi is a requirement, this might be important.
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tarruda 4 days ago
ssl-3 4 days ago
Thanks!
throw4950sh06 4 days ago
homebrewer 4 days ago
planetafro 4 days ago
sweeter 4 days ago
spr-alex 4 days ago
issafram 5 days ago
I decided to install Ubuntu on a 6 year old Dell XPS computer. I now run Wireguard/PiHole strictly on docker and it is incredibly fast. Changed my settings to auto start the PC after a power loss. I haven't had any downtime for the containers. I'll stick to my custom docker compose file forever.
ycuser2 5 days ago
irunmyownemail 4 days ago
doublepg23 4 days ago
ignoramous 5 days ago
abound 4 days ago
fnord77 5 days ago
EasyMark 3 days ago
chao- 5 days ago
stavros 5 days ago
I even wrote a utility to manage the bunch of Compose files via git and automatically update them when I push changes to the repo: https://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
disqard 4 days ago
fnord77 5 days ago
A zoom meeting on a phone is pretty high throughput...
PhilipRoman 4 days ago
EasyMark 3 days ago