Raspberry Pi vs Asus RT-N66u

[cawekun]

How does a Rpi compare to a RT-N66u in terms of performance?

Can I replace every applications an Rpi can handle with a RT-N66u? Like dlna server, torrent server, and others more sofisticated apps?

 

[moonman]

Raspberrypi is mixed bag. The main cpu is faster on the pi, software support is better on the pi. It actually runs a fully featured os. Router on the other hand has a relatively slow cpu (and please don't start comparing the mhz, arm is faster than mips in this case with a dedicated floating point unit and such). But everything else on the router is much faster. Here you have pcie bus with a dedicated switch chip + offloading. Raspberrypi basically has 1 bus: usb and all the devices are connected to the same usb host sharing that half duplex 480 mbit bandwith (usb max throughput is ~30mByte/s - not a lot), including the onboard NIC. Softwarewise router sucks in comparison to rpi. The best you can do is run optware/entware with much more limited selection of packages, some of which are outdated or don't work properly. Though you can chroot into lets say debian mips (not too many distros support mips) and run things that don't exist in optware.

 

[ryzhov_al]

How does a Rpi compare to a RT-N66u in terms of performance?

Can I replace every applications an Rpi can handle with a RT-N66u? Like dlna server, torrent server, and others more sofisticated apps?

Agreed with moonman. I've got both RPi and RT-N66U and I've got some benchmarks for CPU performance for both devices.

DLNA and torrents can be handled by RT-N66U, but, to be honest, RT-N66U got less CPU performance. One service which I can't run on RT-N66U, but still can run smooth on RPi is I2P.

 

[cawekun]

So, in botton line, I should replace everyting my router does, that is not a router thing, should be replaced by a Pi?

I mean, when should I use my router with entware, and when should I just use Pi?

 

[cawekun]

Up?

Someone?

 

[moonman]

Bottom line is if you can run things that YOU need on the router, keep it that way. If something doesn't work/exist in{opt,ent}ware, run it on the pi. Also test and see which software runs faster on which device. If you want something faster get a pogoplug E02 or GoFlex home and install archlinux arm. (armv5 @ 1.2GHz) NSA 325 (armv5 @ 1.6GHz) or an armv7 device (cubox?) http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms