I have a few spare routers accumulated from moving houses, upgrading, home mates leaving theirs when they move etc.
So I was wondering what to do with these instead of throwing them out. Does anybody have experience with using a router as for example a media server, pihole , fan controller for the server shelf …
What OS would be compatible or are routers just to limited in their computational power?
For reference, i have: Speedport smart 4 plus, Fritz!Box 3270, Fritz!Box 7530, EasyBox 804
While you can probably use them for some small tasks (like a switch, a file server with a USB thumb drive or a print server), you’re probably better off if you can sell them and buy a raspberry pi or similar.
The Fritzbox 7530 for example could be sold for 50€ (at least in my country).