On 6 September 2016 09:33:58 BST, Miguel Tavares mtavares@fsfe.org wrote:
Hello Max,
Thx for the reply. APU2 looks interesting more for a home server than just to serve as a firewall to the home IoT and multimedia devices.
I was actually looking more into a small router/firewall. I found out that there's some options, like rooting a small tp-link router I already own or just buying a router that already comes with OpenWRT by default. This last options are considerably more affordable (~30€) than an APU2 (~130€). The possible drawback is that the firmware probably contains binary blobs (I'm not sure if it does, I couldn't find out yet).
Some of the really cheap routers (including many tp-link) have trouble powering some USB devices.
If you plan to use USB devices (especially modems) then you need to limit the choices. After having bad experiences with tp-link, I bought a more expensive Buffalo and have been happy with it.