[tor-relays] Running gigabit relay

Neel Chauhan neel at neelc.org
Sat Jul 27 15:37:57 UTC 2019


By "NUC" I was meaning the low-end Celeron boxes. A NUC with a i7-8650U 
should work for Tor and a dedicated AP. It won't be as good as a desktop 
or server CPU, but for your use case it's fine as a relay and AP/router.

However, the built-in Wi-Fi is usually only a single band at once.

-Neel

On 2019-07-27 01:38, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:08 PM Neel Chauhan <neel at neelc.org> wrote:
>> About the server, I have a powerful HPE ProLiant as mentioned earlier,
>> but like other said at minimum you need a i5/i7 CPU, or an equivalent
>> Xeon or AMD CPU. So this means no NUCs or HPE MicroServers.
> 
> Hm, why not NUCs? There are NUCs with 8th Generation Intel CPUs:
> 
> https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/129705/intel-nuc-kit-with-8th-generation-intel-core-processors.html
> 
> For example, this one uses i7-8650U Processor:
> 
> https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/130392/intel-nuc-kit-nuc7i7dnke.html
> 
> Based on what I read in all the replies (thank you all!) this should
> be more than enough?
> 
> I was thinking of not really using a dedicated router, but hopefully
> configure NUC's WiFi into an AP. This is all I really need. I just
> hope I can configure it as a dual-band AP. I am not yet clear about
> that part.
> 
> 
> Mitar


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