Nanopi R5C Mini WiFi Router OpenWRT with Dual PCIe 2.5Gbps Ethernet M.2 WiFi Bluetooth Ports 4GB LPDDR4X RAM Based in Rockchip RK3568B2 Soc for IOT NAS Smart Home Gateway (with M.2 WiFi Module)

Hi, this is a great Openwrt router. It's a power house really. No problem in handling gigabit wan. Even enabling SQM QOS (cake), it does the job. I could make it shape a 45-device network at 600 mbits/s, symmetric. This with lots of other services running in the router, such as AdguardHome anda Netdata. Beyond that, I started to notice some CPU bottlenecks.This is the second NanoPI device I bought from this seller. Both working perfectly, delivered quickly and great responsiveness from the seller when needed.Really recommend.

This device is a useless paperweight.First, I downloaded multiple OEM images from the FriendlyWRT NanoPi R5C Wiki and gunzip the .gz images then flashed each of them to a SDHC card using Linux dd command, then attempted to boot the device. Not a single one of the images worked.Then because Friendly Elec uses is such a cheap company, they use Google drives instead of their own download servers, ( which is cheap, as I am not rich but have my own public download server) after the first set of image downloads apparently, I reached the Google drive's download quota. So, now I can no longer download files from Google drive.After none of the images I download and dd to SDHC cards worked. I opened the casing and attach a debug UART, to the board and found all the device does boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, forever!So, I looked online for 3rd party images that support the NanoPi R5C, and used Linux to dd those images to SDHC cards, held down the Maskrom button to supposedly boot off the SDHC card (Which did NOT work, the stupid device, still only boot off the eMMC even when holding down the Maskrom button), and once again the only thing the device is capable of doing is boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset, boot to the point of loading a kernel and reset.This device is a piece of crap paperweight. I will not recommend this device, or such a cheap company, that can't even support its own file download server, to anyone.