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The reason for the product is that a lot of people have been using the MV1000 with an external usb wifi dongle. The dongle and the MV1000-W with the wifi built in, end up doing the same, in a smaller package.

You are again comparing products that are not made for routing. A raspberry pi can not handle more than 5 or so clients because the networking is just not there. It is made to be a client, not a router. Doesn’t matter what the specs say, you need to dig deeper.

Remember the raspberry pi has a pcb antenna, in my own tests it is very directional, you want to point the antenna towards your router to even have the best performance as a client.

No matter which product you look at, the Raspberry Pi, the NanoPi, the GL products will always have better routing, as the chips used are designed for that.

Going back to the NanoPi, you can see in a lot of benchmarks that the case they copied from the GL microrouters is not adequate for cooling. The device is constantly throttling, you don’t get the full performance and it gets extremely hot. A quote for tests in their official store comments:

Throttles under load and can not run at full 1500Mhz
Below results on armbian measured with armbianmonitor -m
Ambient temperature 25C
Power measured from the wall
71C / 2.5W / 600Mhz idle
85C / 3.7W / 1000Mhz under load

Sorry but even if it costed 10 dollars, at 71C i would not want to carry it with me, unless i want to warm up my coffee too?