BPI-R3 review with WiFi / CPU benchmarks and power consumption numbers:

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Bananapi R3 review with WiFi / CPU benchmarks and power consumption numbers:

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Interesting review. It’s just too bad the reviewer doesn’t understand DBDC.

EDIT: … or where to source cheap SFP modules. Or what “g” and “b” means for LEDs.

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B=blue
G=green

The have no predefined function,but daniel and used green one as “ON” indicator which is be set to on via devicetree

I have bought 2fibre sfp for 26€ from amazon and 2 2g5 copper sfp (13,5€ each) from aliexpress

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I guess my sarcasm wasn’t clear. I meant it was too bad the reviewer couldn’t figure out those simple things for his review. A few minutes of research would have made his review a lot better.

I looked for a way to comment on the review, but comments appear to be turned off on his web site. And I can’t find an email address for him to give him tips and corrections.

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Yeah, what they had in mind is probably multi-band operation… (ie. one of the big new features of Wi-Fi 7)

MediaTek’s definition of DBDC usually even refers to DBDC frontend chips like the MT7976. In that sense the R3 doesn’t even use DBDC front-end but rather two independent 4T4R frontends, one for each band.

tl;dr: multiband operation != DBDC operation != DBDC frontend

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I’m also an R3 fanboy now… :slight_smile: Also, the reviewer ran the performance tests by running them on single core on R3 instead of multicore. The results would have been x4 … I don’t know if he did the same with the DEC740.

Here some benchmark https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/perf_and_log/benchmark.openssl?s[]=bpi&s[]=r3#new_benchmark_table

You can sort the table for different test and BPI-R3 it is in really good position in each one.