seeed studioLinkStar-H68K-0232 Router with 2GB RAM & 32GB eMMC, Quad-Core Cortex-A55 RK3568 Chip, Mini PC with Dual-2.5G & Dual-1G Ethernet, Pre-Installed Android 11, Ubuntu & OpenWRT (NO WiFi).

This is the worst false advertising ever. Linux support coming soon they say......There's no linux support at all in their forums and no rockchip images from other companies work on it. The preloaded android doesn't support the wifi. Like what the actual F? I feel like this could be a great product but it needed more development. Release it when it's ready or at least warn people.As an OpenWRT router; it gets the job done. It uses immortalWRT which I actually prefer since its lightweight and does not include a bunch of preloaded packages. If you need the official version; no luck.I gave it 3 stars because the router is fast but I feel like this is an expensive GL.inet (beryl) router at this point.

3 stars means it is comparable to the competitionNOTE: Docs never said it has Ubuntu... maybe reviewers should read the advert.Since it has a newer wifi spec it is lots faster than my previous CM4 based router.2.5Gb is a great selling point ... if you have the device and infrastructure to benefit. Most computers still have 1Gb.There are a lot of questionable apps in their OpenWRT image. I recommend removing all that you do not use/recognize and watch your traffic (from outside the device) for odd traffic. My firewall flagged some on my install of their OpenWrt. I did not investigate further... just removed most the apps. Basically, if you cannot read the app description in on the web in English, this may be a good reason to remove it unless you know you use it.If you want to write this to the EMMc, I suggest using a throw-away OS to run their programming app. Nothing insidious found... just intelligent practice for any user.Docs can use improvement. OS installer on EMMc is quite convoluted and uses an app from them (always a red light when I have to install an app that is not needed for other platforms).

It's a neat little ARM box with 4 ethernet ports, nice engineering and solidly made. However, the claimed ubuntu support is non existent at this time. It's got an android load with open wrt, if that works for you great. The flashing software is somewhat poor, if you can get through the bad translation into english you'll find that your options are limited. If they ever come out with a supported ubu load that works, I'll try again and update this review, but they've been sitting on it for 3 months now so I'm not holding my breath that they'll get to it any time soon.

It's really attractive hardware for an industrial-grade router, home or travel router. It's single-band, pick 2.5 or 5 GHz. One I have installed is running too hot to comfortably touch! This is unusual and I wonder if there's an issue with the software idle (which should be holding the CPU in a low-power state most of the time).The USB power input will not work with USB PD or the USB C connector on your laptop, because it doesn't negotiate for power as USB C things are expected to. It needs a USB C to A cable and to be connected with a USB A port on your laptop or a passive 5V power supply.They have a Chinese OpenWRT clone which I don't recommend. An authentic OpenWRT rather than their unofficial one is in early-alpha stage and is available as a snapshot which has WiFi driver issues - WiFi power is indicated as 3mw and if you add a second SSID, the driver stops working.Though I haven't tested their Ubuntu version, it's just Lubuntu, the lightweight version. They are also only now catching up with their obligation to make source code available.It doesn't reliably read high speed TF cards. This is a problem since your OS may live on one, and thus it may boot unreliably. My first unit will not flash the internal eMMC, I ordered another to make sure that's not my problem.I bought this to install at a remote site, so reliability was necessary. I ended up buying something else for now.