It arrived early (about 3 days after I ordered it), so I unpacked it, attached it to a mouse and HDMI monitor, then realized that I had no keyboard (my 2 spares were PS/2), so a quick trip to Best Buy secured a basic no-frills USB keyboard for about $13, and fired it up. I ended up with this little beauty: A Qotom Q330G4 Core I3-4005U which I ordered from Rack-IT Solutions on Amazon with 4 Gig of RAM, a 64 Gig SSD disk and the WiFi kit (duel antennie).
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that could function as an access point (master mode)! The other must-haves were: 1) at least 2 ethernet ports (one for internet and a second to run my desktop on which sits next to the router), 2) at least 3 USB ports (keyboard, mouse, Linux install thumbdrive simultaneously for initial setup and emergency access when I brick the firewall rules and lock myself out! Note: The keyboard and mouse have been removed and replaced with my shared USB printer now that the router is in “production”), 3) the aformentioned WiFi adapter (master mode supported in Linux)! Nice-2-haves: 1) SCSI plug to allow attaching a spinning disk if needed.
When it failed, I had a 2nd copy of it laying around for emergencies, but it only has the stock Linksys firmware and I was afraid to flash it w/Tomato since it’s the only router I had left, so brick it and no internet until I could replace it! Therefore, I decided to finally take the plunge and do what I had wanted to do for a long time, but couldn’t justify to myself (or wife) spending the money to buy what I really wanted: a fanless OS-free Linux-compatable minicomputer w/multiple eithernet ports AND a WiFi nic. I had installed Tomato firmware on it years ago for more control and better performance, which worked very well for what it was: 16 meg nv-ram, ancient kernel v2.4x unupgradable due to size constraints, no storage so no ability to add any other programs not embedded in the Tomato image (ethtool, for example). to an overheating issue: Cleaned throughly inside and out, did not fix. The WRT54G has served as a good nat-router until recently when it started occasionally tripping (rebooting itself).
Qotom WiFi Router-ready Mini-PC If you are looking to create your own Linux home router with both ethernet and WiFi (because you’re a technical open-source computer control-freak like me), then you’ve come to the right place! My mission was to replace my aging, ailing Linksys WRT54G router which has dutifully powered our home internet for over 15 years starting when broadband internet first became available in our area (I live out in the country).
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