Basically a modernised PCengine APU4, which sadly got discontinued.

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    5 months ago

    DC barrel plugs are traditional choice, I’d love to see one of these tiny computers with the POE instead, or maybe as an option

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      5 months ago

      Considering these are to be used as a router, what are you planning on powering it off of? I can’t see much use where you’d put this unit behind a poe switch aside from maybe blocking a problematic device (in a corporate setting to meet security requirements). If it’s for a small switch scenario, you’d get the performance out of a (slightly) cheaper dedicated switch.

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        5 months ago

        The lan side of the router could be POE powered, connecting to an internal POE switch.

        Heck, the POE switch could be on the WAN sorry just using VLAN tagging.

        Or just a POE injector anywhere.

        I’m not objecting to the barrel plug, it works its serviceable it’s reliable. I just have a lot of equipment, and therefore a lot of extra gear, with POE injection so it would be convenient and clean up my rack

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          5 months ago

          You can get a POE breakout that has a barrel plug end? Extra hardware, but I don’t hate the modularity.

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          If it works for you, great. To me that’s a risk of more stuff that could break and cause problems when you could just have a DC barrel and move on.

          I can definitely think of some edge cases where it would be handy though.

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      5 months ago

      That would be great! I’d also like if we could drop the barrel plug and power all these with USB since everyone has dozens of those chargers.