The Banana Pi R64 is an experimental router based development board, which we have configured to boot from SD card with the latest version of mainline OpenWRTR. It has 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 1 Gigabit WAN, and AC wifi AP function while using 64 bit chip design.

The MT7622 contains MediaTek’s Adaptive Network technology that allows for easy setup, network self-healing, roaming, band steering, Smart quality of service, advanced security and more. For audio and voice control applications, essential audio interfaces such as I2S, TDM and S/PDIF are included. And for Home Automation Gateways there is a rich array of slow I/O in addition to the integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth solutions.

Powered by a 64-bit dual-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1.35GHz, the MT7622 provides a host of advanced connectivity options like SGMII/RGMII, PCIe, and USB, and 4X4 802.11n FEM integration. Extending the platform with 802.11ac to meet additional markets is simply done via MT7615 SoC.

The advantage of the MediaTek Wi-Fi Warp Accelerator is two-fold. First, it connects the Gigabit+ class 802.11ac networking through to the Gigabit switch/WAN connection via multi-Gigabit internal pathways, ensuring no bottleneck. Secondly, its specialized design not only offloads the CPU from many-user throughput and QoS calculations, it does so at lower power. The result is the MediaTek Wi-Fi Warp Accelerator maintains a sustained high-performance when even supporting multiple, simultaneous heavy users.

We have configured this router to boot the latest version of OpenWRT from sd card and pre-loaded TorGuard VPN configuration files.

Product Specs:

CPU: MediaTek MT7622,1.35GHZ 64 bit dual-core ARM Cortex-A53 SDRAM: 1 GB DDR3 SATA: support 1 SATA interface GPIO: 40 Pins Header, 28×GPIO, some of which can be used for specific functions including UART, I2C, SPI, PWM, I2S. On board Network: 5 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Wifi: built-in 4x4n 802.11n (800Mbps) sysem-on-chip and MTK7615 4x4ac wifi Module (1733Mbps) (option) Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5.0 system-on-chip On board Storage: MicroSD \(TF\) card,8GB eMMC onboard (unused) mini PCIE: 1 mini pcie interface for 4G USB: 1 USB 3.0 host Buttons: Reset button Leds: Power status Led and RJ45 Led IR: PIN define with GPIO DC Power: 12V/2A with DC in POE: support POE module interface,can add POE module Sizes: 148 mm × 100.5mm same as Banana Pi BPI-R3 and Banana Pi BPI-R2 Weight: 100g Operating System: OpenWRT (Latest Official Snapshot build)