Banana Pi BPI-R4 Wifi 7 router board with MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880),4G RAM and 8G eMMC

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R4(MT7988)
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I apologize for being unclear, I did not mean off the SFP pins, rather one of the UARTs from the 26 pin GPIO header on the SoC, I only see RX/TX CTS/RTS 3.3V/GND and I need DCD.

The few reviews that are more of press releases don’t shed much light in terms of CPU uptick. I would really like to see some SQM results, post which I’d buy this in a jiffy to enable to get rid of ISP supplied GPON optics.

Thank you for clearing all that up, I appreciate it!

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Anyone tested the nat or wireguard performance? Or nvme over samba?

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Hello everyone! Anyone have 3d model of motherboard of R4? I want to make 3d model of case. Or maybe someone have 3d model of case?

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Im sorry for my ignorance but i cannot read schematics very well.

Are any of ports going to be “dedicated” (i.e. not sharing bandwidth with other ports)

Thanks in advance

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Other than previous BPi router products the R4 doesn’t overbook Ethernet bandwidth: 4x 1GE via built-in switch, connected to SoC with 4 Gbit/s 2x 10G SFP+, each connected to the SoC via it’s own SerDes lane

In terms of USB, there is a on-board USB 3 hub, so USB bandwidth is shared.

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When we get this wifi7 module or dedicated case?

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When can I use the latest OpenWrt

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I have some board in-hand. I’ve flashed the supplied openwrt to SD and set the dip switches ‘down’ (towards the board). Board boots to a red power and a blue ‘B’ light. However, it doesn’t respond on 192.168.1.1 and doesn’t pull DHCP on the wan port, anyone else able to get into the board?

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Connect to serial uart debug port to what’s up?

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Can this device boot off of nvme and use ext4?

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See my answer here:

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Thanks for the information. I am just a simple user. I just want the BPI-R4 to be all I wanted the BPI-R3 isn’t. Though, have to say, I really like my BPI-R3… Thank you very much to all you people who make all of this work. I appreciate it.

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afaik the wifi 7 board will be available in jan/feb 2024, so i would not expect a case before march/april 2024

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You better have the USB TTL cable, but I found that the image released on the Wiki page doesn’t work for me as well (boot loop), so I followed a dev branch to compile a new one to check.

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Have someone made working image openwrt with luci?

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It may have been better to have a different form-factor for two lanes on the mini-pcie socket. Mini-pcie only supports 1 lane if I understand correctly. Perhapse M.2. would have been better. But I guess that is now too late to change.

If someone wants to use the 2 mini-pcie slots for something other than the wifi7 board, then only 1 lane can be used.

Or could BananaPi perhaps provide for a mini-pcie to M.2 adapter with 2 lanes?

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Banana Pi BPI-R4 MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad-core Arm Corex-A73 4GB DDR4 8GB eMMC flash Smart Router Board - AliExpress

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:+1:

@sinovoip please provide adapter boards for M.2 Key-B (for additional 5G modems) as well as Key-M (for additional SSD). Having them as options would allow to use the R4 for 5G multiwan or NAS application, esp. now while the MT7996 Wi-Fi 7 module is not yet available.

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i received my banana pi r4 now and wondering about cooling. any recommendation? or what happens when i run it without any cooling? will it throttle before it gets damaged?

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I ordered 2 of these: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32889675278.html?spm=a2g0n.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.bf5563684aoxvd&gatewayAdapt=glo2deu

That should match the holes in board. But have it currently running without and without case and temperature does not rise much

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