Banana Pi BPI-R4 WiFi 7 Wireless Dual-Band WiFi Router Board OpenWRT, with MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) SoC, Support 2X 10GbE SFP and 4X GbE Gigabit Ethernet for NAS Smart Home Gateway (Bundle3)

It took a bit for the driver development for the BPI-R4-NIC-BE14/MT7996 card to be stable in mainline-bound Linux kernel, but it is officially the best WiFi access point now (and will be even better once the BPI-R4-NIC-BE19/14 antenna + 4x radio WiFi module is released). Great as standalone access points (running Ubuntu 24.04/hostapd off the SSD, for LTS+unattended-upgrades), and even better as wireless bridges - I was able to replace/augment my previous MoCA 2.5Gbit setup by using 2x BPI-R4 (one as AP + other as client/bridge for satellite room connectivity as a switch).

Ich habe mir den BPI-R4 zum basteln und spielen geholt um erste Erfahrungen mit openWRT zu machen und meine Erwartungen wurden nicht enttäuscht. Die Dokumentation ist sehr gut und auch die Verarbeitung von Gehäuse, Antennen etc. ist wesentlich besser als ich es erwartet hätte. Die Möglichkeiten, die man mit solch einem Router hat sind nahezu unendlich. Die Hardware ist mit 2x 10G SFP Ports und Wifi 7 echt stark. Wenn man das ganze mit einem Betriebsystem wie openWRT kombiniert ist das Ergebnis genial. Man muss für so einen Router natürlich basteln und eventuell auch etwas lernen wollen aber mir hat das ganze bisher so viel Spaß gemacht, dass ich sogar plane meinen aktuellen Router mit dem R4 zu ersetzten. Auch die Erweiterung um eine M2 SSD und die Verwendung der GPIO Pins sind geplant. Wenn ich nochmal vor der Wahl stände, würde ich es sofort wieder kaufen. Klare Empfehlung

Venditore e spedizione top. Prodotto eccezionale, manca il modulo wifi7 ma deve essere ancora commercializzato

I purchased this BPI-R4 with Mediatek MT7988A card because it supports WiFi 7 and 10GbE SFP fast links. Plus it support OpenWrt. This makes it an ideal platform for research experiments in high-speed network processing. The MT7988A is supported by OpenWrt, so it's easy to make custom builds. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the product, its packaging, and how it was so easy to put it together. The package includes *everything* you need to build a WiFi access point, including the serial adapter dongle, cables, fan, heat sinks, antennas. You don't really need an SD card like you do for a Raspberry Pi. The hardware was up and running within an hour, and I tested is using an SD card that I had lying around (you don't really need it) with a default OpenWrt downloaded from the Firmware Selector. I was able to first build a basic WiFi7 AP, and then with a 6GHz band enabled with a few tweaks. The Banana Pi documentation and forum was extremely helpful when I got stuck, and I was able to resolve issues (mostly w/ software) with help from customer support and the technical forums. I found it much more helpful than some of the Raspberry Pi forums. The device is compact, so you can put it almost anywhere, even with the antennas attached. I now have a WiFi7 AP at home that supports 6 GHz bands at the fraction of the cost of such routers available in the market. It offers incredible value for money. In fact, I use two for research purposes. I highly recommend it!

Order fulfilled fast, complete and in good shape. Even had one TTL to USB converter in the box that was really nice and handy. Keep in mind, this is a router development board, not a ready and out of the box router solution for daily use. Firmwares might be unstable and closed-source.