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Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Router Board with MediaTek MT7988A and Wi-Fi 7 Support

by teleforce on 6/5/25, 5:31 AM with 2 comments

  • by jauntywundrkind on 6/5/25, 6:12 AM

    Looking forward to the day when this kind of board isn't radically oversubcribed. So many awesome expansion options but they are all running with reduced lane counts at old revs.

      2x miniPCIe slots with PCIe3.0  2lane interface for Wi-Fi NIC
  2x M.2 M-KEY slots with PCIe3.0 1lane interface for NVME SSD (PCIe can switch to M.2 B-KEY slot)
  3x M.2 B-KEY slots with USB3.2 for 5G Module
    Who knows what the cores actual NIC is; there's probably some switch chip and then a much smaller pipe back to the core.

  • by WarOnPrivacy on 6/5/25, 6:26 AM

    I was looking at one of these to play with @ $126. But to the US it's another $45 for shipping+import.

    Then US Customs gets a hold of it and tacks on tariffs (I know from recent exp).

    To Canada, the same kit is C$151.31 ($110.41 USD) delivered.

    ref: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806070397585.html