[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Andrew Jones]

On 02/16/2014 11:45 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 02/16/14 22:30, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> If that doesn't work out, there is also the ubiquiti edge router
>> lite.  It is a dual core MIPS CPU ( Cavium OcteonB CN5020 ) , which
>> supposedly has some special acceleration, 512megs of ram, 2 gigs of
>> flash
>
> The Mikrotik has a 600MHz processor vs. 500MHz for the
> Ubiquiti, but doesn't as far as I can see specify number of cores or
> 32/64 bit.

Watching people fight about awful embedded chips just kills me.  In 
2014, a $20 Netra X1 is still a "fast enough" UNIX box with plenty of 
RAM.  It eats 20-40W.  If you are sweating electrical costs for less 
power than a light bulb, power isn't the real problem.

I won't go gently into that good night.  As long as I have a place to 
put the noisy bastard, I'd rather have a real system than haggle over 
the details of embedded boards.







*to my shame, I am in fact using some garbage ARM thing for a home 
internet gateway because I lost my place to put the noisy bastard.  If 
it weren't a rental I would just run cat6 to the damned basement.