Banana Pi R3 Review BPi-R3
Channel: junicast
Date: 2023-01-25

I received the Banana Pi in December 2022. During the last month I was able to test it to the bones. For that OpenWrt unstable was used.

Look at what the device looks like in the original casing. I too made thorough benchmarks for Wifi 6 and CPU. See Review Link below.

00:00 Device Overview
01:58 SFP Fiber?
02:42 Specifications
03:52 2.5G
04:16 Wifi Benchmark
04:40 CPU Benchmark
05:33 Power
05:52 OpenWrt
06:44 Final words

Links:
Banana Pi R3 written Review
https://wiki.junicast.de/en/junicast/review/bananapi-BPI-R3

Amazon R3 (Affiliate)
https://amzn.to/3CdKABi

Amazon R3 Case (Affiliate)
https://amzn.to/4cqKuqg

Official Banana Pi R3 wiki
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3

OpenWrt Page of R3
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/sinovoip/sinovoip_bananapi_bpi-r3

OpenWrt Benchmark Table
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/perf_and_log/benchmark.openssl

OpenWrt Snapshot R3
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-bananapi_bpi-r3-sdcard.img.gz

Schematics
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mxKb8CBbnzfNSd_4esmcX_NovxaXjEb8/view