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by user5994461
2192 days ago
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They're running CGI and writing homemade web servers in C because they haven't maintained or upgraded their software in decades. I don't think they are low power devices. My bet would be they're relatively normal hardware running a light linux. It takes quite a bit of power to route gigabit ethernet or ac wifi. |
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Sometimes, certainly:) However...
> I don't think they are low power devices. My bet would be they're relatively normal hardware running a light linux. It takes quite a bit of power to route gigabit ethernet or ac wifi.
It doesn't take much compute to handle high-end eth/wifi if you offload it to hardware, and even doing it on-CPU (which I don't think is actually common) probably wouldn't impact RAM/storage, so you could still manage with a stronger CPU and comically tiny memory.