Route Your Network Traffic

LET’S BE BLUNT: a Pi isn’t the best choice of hardware for a router; its Ethernet port sits on its single USB 2.0 bus, bottlenecking its data allocation between all devices, so you’re likely to top out at 50Mb/s throughput. That said, a lot of routers aren’t the best choice for a router, as they’re filled with dumb software that wouldn’t know a packet from a hole in the ground. OpenWRT is replacement router firmware that gives you pinpoint control; if your hardware doesn’t support it, switch into modem mode, and send traffic through OpenWRT running on a Pi. www.openwrt.org