Why is the PI using USB2 instead of USB3 at this point and is there any plan to come out with a multi-nic version of the card? I can see this being used as a very nice little firewall if one could stack, say, 3 nics on the card.
Why is the PI using USB2 instead of USB3 at this point and is there any plan to come out with a multi-nic version of the card? I can see this being used as a very nice little firewall if one could stack, say, 3 nics on the card.
Why not use one of the USB ports to host a USB NIC? If you're using it as a cable/DSL firewall, you'd not see any benefit from USB3 over USB2 unless you've got phenominal broadband where you live. Also, I think they're using USB2 purely for cost - USB3 would have pushed it over the $35 target price + I don't think the CPU could keep up, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.