It’s that time of year… CNX Software giveaway week! For the 9th edition, we’ll have seven items to give away, five that I will send myself, and two that will be sent directly from two companies that accepted to add their own products to the giveaway.
We’ll start the giveaway with NanoPi R5S router based on Rockchip RK3568 SoC with 2 GB DDR4 RAM, 8GB eMMC flash plus an M.2 socket for NVMe SSD, two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, as well as HDMI 2.0 video output and two USB 3.0 ports.
I reviewed the NanoPi R5S router with OpenWrt and Ubuntu 20.04 “FriendlyCore”, but I had to call this a “preview” since 2.5GbE was far from optimal, sometimes only a little faster than with a Gigabit Ethernet link. But I can see the company has released new images, including one based on the latest OpenWrt 22.03, so hopefully the performance has improved. Debian with desktop and Android 12 images are now available as well so the HDMI port has become more useful.
At the time of the review, I also tested an M.2 NVMe SSD on the board/router. It could reach about 380MB/s read and write speeds which may seem low, but the values are expected since the router relies on a PCIe 2.0 x1 interface.
The giveaway includes the router fully assembled. So you’ll just need a 5V/3A USB power adapter if you want to boot the pre-installed OS.
To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:
- Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
- Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
- Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
- Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
- I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
- Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
- Shipping
- $18 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete.
- If Paypal is not available in your country, you can still play, and I’ll cover the cost of sending the parcel by Sea and Land (SAL) without registration if you win.
- I’ll post all prizes at the same time, around the 16th of November, except for products shipped directly by companies which will be handled separately.
- I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.
Good luck!
If you don’t win and you’d like to buy the NanoPi R5S gateway with the metal case, you can do so on the FriendlyELEC store, Amazon or Aliexpress for $75 and up.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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OK… That was fun with 757 entries. That’s a record on CNX Software by a wide margin.
Let’s ask Mr. Random… who picks number… 730
That would be irnis. Congratulations! I’ll contact you by email.There were some unfortunate issues related to shipping with the first winner, so I had to draw another contestant.
Random.org selected #114 that would be Ingmar. Congratulations!
Greetings from Canada! 🍁
Make My Day! 😎👍
USA
Old geeks still love new tech!
Greetings from the UK. Enjoy your articles and I love to tinker with new tech and gadgets.
Canada! Wouldn’t mind experimenting with this box.
That’d be neat.
United States, and I love reading the reviews and articles you post of various SBCs!
Olivier, France.
Thanks for the nice gesture !
I’ve switched my elderly mom to an Android desktop instead of Windows, that way all her devices look and work the same. But it’s hard to find Core A7x TV boxes. She’s currently on an A72 H96Max, but that’s Android 6 and the last update forced the Launcher to Android TV, which is bad. I’m planning to get her better hardware w/ more recent Android, as soon as I find a good+affordable device… looks like it’s going to be a dev board, not a TV box.
Hello from Singapore.
United States
Woohoo rk3568 go hummmmmm
Hi, David here in the USA. Thanks for the opportunity!
Thank you for the Giveaway Week
Greeting from Taiwan!
Denmark: Love CNX Software! Keep us updated on the good stuff!
Hello from Kingdom of Bahrain.
I enjoy reading cnx articles.
Keep up the good work.
Way Hay…… UK
Tom from Hong Kong
Good evening from the USA
Hong Kong, and I can’t believe it’s been another year already
Vietnam. I look forward to more technical articles.
Would love to own this cool gear 😎
Singapore
Denmark
Hello from Vietnam!
Hello from Vietnam
Hi from Germany and thanks for all the news!
Greetings from Canada!
It seem great. Taiwan, Taipei
Canada
Since it is a router, what use would be NVMe SSD?
Hello from Malaysia
Indonesia
Korea
I am always interested in watching CNX news.
Hi from Russia.
Thanks for giveaway. RK3568 is interesting SoC, I would like to test it for my purposes)
India….Nice work as always!!
Hi from United States, hope to win the Pi.
Russia.
Thanks for opportunity.
Greetings from the US!
Thank cnx. VietNam
Hello from Vietnam. ^^
Would love one of these units! United States of America.
Gizme from Taiwan.
I’ve bought several NanoPi Neo products from FriendlyElec. They are solid built and well supported. I am sure the R5S could be the best choice for my home router. Hope this is my day.
I just recently got 1000/1000 fiber connection installed in my apartment so this would be perfect.
Sweden!
USA! Been relying on you to keep me updated on the latest new devices! ^_^
All hopes from France !
Hello from India ❤️
Turkiye’den selamlar 🙋♂️
Slovenia. Hello!
Germany
I tested the NanoPi r4s, despite of a little issue on the management of MTU and VLAN tagged packeds on the WAN port, this little box was awesome to replace the router provided by my FRENCH fiber ISP.
looking forward for the NanoPi r5s capabilities.
Hi from Vietnam, hope i can use this board to replace my old router.
Hello from Luxembourg 🙂
Hello from Finland!
Yet, another Canadian Eh. Looks like something I could enjoy putting to use.
Hello from Sweden. A 2.5 GbE router would be great!
Dav, hi! from France
Nice opportunity…
Hello from the United States
That R5S looks like a nice router! Greetings from USA!
Hello from France.
Hello from Perú! I am developing parental controls based on openwrt. Si this nano pi might be a great prototyping platform <3
Poland
Japan
It is exciting to see 2.5Gbe filtering down into more and more things.
Singapore!
Would make a great replacement for my current Intel J1900 based router/server.
Vanakkam from India! cnx-software is my daily dose of Embedded news.
Bisous de France
Hi from Germany
Sweden !
Hello from Sweden!
Hello from Brazil
France! Merci pour ton site
Yes, please, South Africa
Poland! 🇵🇱
Kind regards.
🙂
Romania
Hello from Ukraine
Nice SBC, I’ll be happy to play with it!
Hello from Germany
The Netherlands, thx for the giveaway!
Hi from Australia. Sold my R2S and regret it ever since.
France! And thank you for all of this 🙂
United States
Does it run mainline Linux too?
Bonjour de France
Pick me, pick me!
Hello from Germany. Very cool.
HUngary 😉
From Vietnam, I love cnx-software. I like this board!!!!
Hola from Spain 🇪🇦
USA. Interesting product.
Hi there from India, I wonder how this would compete with the solid-run cubox that I had a few years ago? After that broke I have not used any ARM box for more than 5 years.
Hello from France !
Thanks from Seville, Spain.
Hello from Turkey
Greetings from France !
Hungary. Need to replace my router. 😉
Greetings from Belgium.
That would be a good addition to the different types of SBC I have.
Best regards
Another entry here from Finland.
I never win anything, so I expect not to win anything in this one, either, but oh well, I guess I won’t lose anything either by joining the rowdy crowd of needy nerds!
Hi from Germany
Greetings from Singapore.
Belgium
austria.
thanks!
UK.
The Android image certainly adds to it’s versatility.
Netherlands
Greetings
Poland here. It would be great to win that SBC!
Greeting from Israel.
Portugal
I ported the R4S to Talos and plan on doing the same for the R5S, if only I had one here in Germany.
Greetings from Germany. Like to read news from CNXSoft as I get info on devices I otherwise would not have found. Thanks!
Greetings from Czechia!
From Russia with hope.
maybe this year is my lucky one !
Romania
Hey, Poland here!
I’m in for the giveaway from Australia 😉
Germany here.
Thanks for your work. I enjoy reading cnx-software daily.
Greetings !
Salut din Romania !
Hello from Bulgaria
Haithem, Libya.
I enjoy reading your articles/reviews. Keep up.
Hello from Indonesia
Greetings from the UK
Hello from Germany!
Italy! Would really like to try it.
Hola from Spain!
Greetings from Belgium, the land of the waffles. Enjoyed the reviews so far, would be great to give it a run, potentially with a reverse proxy and a home assistant (and some other containers)!
Hello from Lithuania!
Korea
I want to play with a fun board
+1 Gratings from Poland.
Michal from Poland here 🙂 best regards
The Netherlands
Another great year of blogging!
Thanks for all the information the past year!
Thank you from Italy
France 🙂 Xing fingers 🤞🏻
greeting from romania
The Netherlands!
Greetings from Germany.
Hungary. CNX-Software is my go-to tech site. Thanks for all your hard work.
oh I’ll post from all my vpn IPs now – really want that !
:)) joking – George from France
Poland
Serbia
The best time of the year!
Greetings from The Netherlands!
Greetings from Italy and congratulations for this great blog!
Sweden, the weather here sucks. Give me some hardware “sunshine” 🙂
Poland
Greetings from Lithuania!
Let it come to Germany! 🙂
Thank you Jean-Luc for running the giveaway!
Netherlands 🙂
Servus from Germany and thanks for all the hard work!
I want it 😁
Serbia
<3 from italy
Israel
Hello from Greece!! 🇬🇷 Great giveaway!
Greetings from Lithuania!
As always, greetings from Romania. I may be the second one here, but there are a lot more Romanians reading your website.
Thank you for the Giveaway Week
Switzerland. This is such a nice little box for router, NAS or small server experimentation.
Hi from France and thanks for your reviews.
Estonia! R5S Would be really good upgrade for my current router.
Indonesia
Poland.
Georgia, hello 👋
Hi from Turkey to the GiveAway-Contest/Week 😉
Hello from Northern Ireland! Looks like an awesome wee device
hungary
Germany-based here
Thanks for your great (p)reviews and tips over the years! Just trying my luck this time around.
Hello from Sweden!
united kingdom
I’d love to win a little router 😀
Szabi
Pete; Australia.
Australia
Hi from France !
I’m reading this awesome blog every days ! For years now !
Hello from Germany!
Spain. Thank you for this initiative, this blog is one of my favorites that read every day!
Thanks from Pakistan.
Witam! Poland
Greetings From Serbia
United States, thanks for the opportunity
USA
Israel.
Keep up the good work !
Why not ..would like to have this..from India…
Hi from the UK! I love the SBCs from FriendlyELEC, they make some really great kit
Scotland (UK)! I love my R2S and this would be a lovely upgrade 🙂
Germany! Great work, keep it up!
Greetings! 😀
germany 🙂
Finland
Greetings from Germany!
This post is from the Netherlands. Would love to win! 🙂
I’m in the U.S.A. and would love to try this in place of my current router
Switzerland
Colombia here 🙂 … Trying 🤞… Thanks for the giveaway!
hello im from indonesia
Israel
Thanks!
Poland
Greetings from Slovenia! Me, me!
Greetings from Singapore!
Been eyeing this one for micro home labbing.
The best, from Portugal!
Thank you for the opportunity.
United States! I love reading about all the cool tech via this site
Would be interesting to play around with in Sweden.
Hi from Philippines!
Poland, it really improve my local network and I will test own docker builds!
Hi! from Indonesia.
Germany. I’d Love to Play around with a NanoPi Router Board!
Greece
Poland. Nice to win this prize.
Greetings from Belarus!
Could really use a router SBC right now. (=
thx Switzerland
Cheers from the USA!
I would be keen to tinker with this router board in the homelab….
Thanks for your generous contest!!
— Mike R.
I live in United States, Colorado, Boulder. As an embedded developer I would love to get my hands dirty on this board.
Thanks
Hi from Japan.
I built a router with a NanoPi NEO3 and a USB NIC, but the ManoPi R5S looks much better than that.
Greeting from Hungary!
Romania – cheers and thanks for reviews
Latvia
Good luck for all! 🙂
Hello from Poland!
USA 🇺🇸 would like one fan of raspberries choose me
Thanks
Hello from Poland
I would love to add this device to https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2
Germany
Would be awesome to experiment with the r5s.
Greeting from Singapore, Would like to try this as as small vpn server when I travel out of Singapore..
Portugal. Keep up the good work.
Thanks from Australia!
From Sweden; Hello World
Hello from Germany
United States
Love learning about all the new gear you cover.
Thank you.
No whammies!!
Hello from united states.
USA reader here.
Fingers crossed!
Hungary! I’d love to experiment with one of these!
hello from Indonesia 🙂
Hello!
United States of America here.
Poland
Hello and kind regards 🙂
Poland
From Indonesia with love 🙂
hello from Israel
Szuper! From Humgary.
Italy!
Hello from the USA
Hello from Israel
Belgium. Looks like a nice device to get into 2.5GbE networking. Thanks for all your articles!
Joe from the United States
Hello from Germany.
Hello from germany
United Kingdom. Cool givaway, keep ’em coming!
France, Thank you for your website
Netherlands
USA – looks like a neat device, would be great to win it 😀
Hello, Slovenia! I want this one 🙂
Serbia here. Thanks for the opportunity. 🔥
Serbia
I’d love a new SBC – USA
United States.
Looks like a cool little router!
USA
I appreciate all the info on this site.
I’m glad to see giveaway week back! But, I wouldn’t touch a FriendlyELEC device even if it was free, but thanks for doing this anyway!
United States.
Like a cool little router!
Hello from Singapore!
United States, I check this site daily, keep up the good work
United States. Looks like a very cool device!
United States! Looks like a cool device!
Greetings from Romania!
I am curious about the VPN performance for this little guy.
Hello from Brazil ! Thank you!
Gegroet uit Nederland/greetings from the Netherlands, i would love to win this
The Netherlands. Thanks for all your posts!
Greetings from the US. This looks like something I’d like to experiment with.
Hello from US
Expect some more registrations from Brazil since you’re Google-trending here 🙂
U.S. here, this would be neat for some projects in the pipeline.
hi from Japan
Hello from Israel.
Great content on this site
Ireland
Thanks
UK. You ok?
Greetings
Hello from North Macedonia
Hi from Slovakia! Long time reader, love the website. Thanks for all your hard work 🙂
Sweden, this would greatly improve the connectivity aboard my liveaboard boat
Would be interesting to try that to something here in Finland.
Hello from France 🙂
Rafael from the USA.
Slovenia, count me in
Greetings from the USA!
Would love to be able to upgrade my home router! Already have a few OpenWRT devices working as APs and they are working fantastically well, so I’m definitely interested in switching to a 2.5GbE device capable of using OpenWRT, vs the stock firmware-ed Archer C7v4 that I’m using now 👍
USA.
Great article and very cool SBC.
From Canada,
Thanks!
USA. Good luck to everyone!
USA here, love the articles!
indonesia
petok-petok
Vietnam
Slovenia, wow nice!
Hello from Hungary!
Indonesia!
It will be a great replacement (and also addition) to my wifi setup which currently running on old AMD Llano using Ubuntu as DHCP and pi-hole server. Recently been searching for a nice replacement for it so I can also do bandwidth monitoring but haven’t been able to find one. This NanoPi seems to be a really good candidate for my use case!
Hi from Israel 🙂
From Singapore. Thanks for the nice gesture!
United States
Can I install pfSense instead of OpenWRT on the R5S?
Italy. I endless hope! 🙂
Estonia.
Wow, so many comments 🙂
United States
Good luck everyone
Canada
I’d like to move away from DD-wrt on R7000 and my main router!
Slovakia
United States
I’m on the road a lot, so a tiny router like this would be perfect for my carry-on!
Canada. Nice box.
USA These tiny SBC routers are very intriguing!
Malaysia checking in!
In. Poland.
The Netherlands. Thank you for your blog!
Canada. Great day.
United States
Great giveaway, thanks!
united states
Thank you
Hello from France. This could be a very interesting addition to my network as a software router or openvpn server .
United States – I love the compact power of this unit.
Greetings from The Netherlands!
France
Thank you Jean-Luc and all the commenters for the great news and discussions.
United States
I appreciate your work, it’s part of a select few information sources that define my current understanding of the worlds.
Thanks from USA!
Why’d a router need an HDMI port? Only one way to know I guess. Also, Mexico.
US Here. Looks like a fun little project to upgrade my router.
Another American here, looking to experiment with this cool device!
Dirk from Germany, nice little beast, interesting option with OpenWrt.
Coming to you live from the USA
Greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgium
I have a 128GB NVMe SSD burning a hole in my pocket but, more importantly, this would be serious upgrade to my 5 years old rpi
Hello from USA
The Netherlands says hi! 😉
cheers from Amsterdam.
Regards from Bolivia
Hello from the United States. Neat device. It looks like it could be a fun project.
Hello from the US.
Portugal
Greetings from San Marino,
And thanks however things goes.
Hello from Turkey.
It’s very nice of you that sending to countries which doesn’t or banned PayPal.
Hello, from France. I really like this news site !
From Morocco, cnx still my best source of information abouts sbcs box and robotics…
Romania here. You are doing greate reviews.
Montenegro here. Love reading about Linux gadgets.
Greetings from Germany!
Greetings from Italy!
United States. Doing DIY projects with SBC box
Greetings from Greece!
United States. Doing DIY with SBC
Guten Tag from Germany! Would be cool if my Fritz!Box can finally take a break lol
Love your Posts btw
United States, would be a cool addition to my small homelab!
Hello from United States of America. Minnesota specifically.
Hello from the USA!
Greetings from Switzerland 🙂
Hello from the USA.
Wonder if this router is programmable, and dev friendly. Would love to see what it can do.
Hi from the United States
Greetings, always enjoy your articles about small board computers, Arizona, United States
UK – good luck all.
Greetings from Ecuador! I would love to run my lab test with it 🙂
Hey hey, from the USA!
Hello from The Netherlands
Israel, great router !
Hi I am Sam I am a young it enthousiast but I don’t have the money to buy devices like the NanoPi so I would really like to win one. Greetings from Belgium
From the Netherlands (and Holland, South Holland in particular) – and what a cool little box 😁
Netherlands! Greetings!
Greetings from the USA!
France. Great website/content. Thanks for that too
This would be a perfect replacement for my current wired router 👍😁
Canada
California, USA
Country= Greece . Comment: Thank you for the giveaway and your great website!
Oregon, USA here. Been thinking about buying on of these for months to use as a WiFi router, to replace my current dreaded Google WiFi router😞
Please pick me☺️
United States in Maryland. I’m thinking this could be a cool lightweight user terminal.
Wuhuu, giveaway yeah! 😉
Cool, from the USA
USA
Wow, starting off the give-a-way with a heavy hitter.
United States
USA here. I was very interested in trying this out for my mobile streaming rack when I read the review.
USA. Would love to have this for my first home lab!
United States Richie County wv
Lithuania
Germany! Can aaalllwaaayys use another low power OpenWRT ARM box. 🙂
United States ritchie county wv hope to win I don’t think I’ve ever won anything my life luck is never on my side. Lol
Portugal and this time this is mine!
United States
United States, big fan of your articles
From the United States, love reading your articles on interesting tech that is usually never covered by other rmedia outlets.
TEXAS! Well, it used to be a country anyway, and despite the words of lots of folks here I’m proud it’s part of the United States of America. Lets get past all the partisan BS and get back to making this the greatest country on Earth!
Moin from Germany
United States. I’d love to start my cluster with one!
Denmark
Hello from Brazil!
Perfect to try it out as VPN gateway
Hi from Australia. More gadgets for the electric god, why not?
Cool stuff! Hello from Hungary!
hello from China
United States. Thanx.
United states, Awwwwww yeah!
Hello from the US!
Portugal
United Kingdom
Make it so!
Poland, It will be best gift for my home lab!
Olá from Portugal!
Love your news over here keep it comming.
Want to get that device to Spain!
Great site! Thanks from Germany
Would love more Pi!
Greetings from the USA.
United States
Greetings from USA !^.^!
That would be so cool to turn it into a game streaming device like steam stream
Malta!
Thank you
Inited States of America
United States
Fala meu povo
Greetings from Germany
USA
Tank you for the chance.
United States. although currently in Nova Scotia Csnada for a couple of weeks
United States .thanks for the giveaways
Greetings from the United States!
Argentina! Thank you for the international giveaway!
United States, cheers!
United States!
Better chances then the Powerball!
USA
You are my hero!
Hello from the US
Wohoooo
Greets from Portugal!
Thank you and Good Luck y’all!
United States, looks like a fun board to use! Thanks for the chance!
United States, looks like a fun piece of tech! Thanks for the chance!
UsA
Would love this!
Greetings from the United States
Hello from Romania !
Cheers (saludos) from USA/Mexico
Would love to experiment with one of these here in the USA!
Poland
Let Poland fill the entropy pool!
Germany! Good luck)
Madagascar
Greetings from India!
Let’s get an upgrade to this! 😅
Hi from Belgium!
Greating from Vietnam! This box would be great to have network at my farm
Thank you from America for all the great articles and reviews!
Soumik, USA.
Always wanted to replace my Asus router with an SBC. This’ll work perfectly!
Looks like a cool device that I could utilize here in the lovely USA
Grettings from Poland! 🇵🇱
Thanks for giveaway 🙂.
Hello from the United States!
Italy. Fingers crossed!
Hello from Romania!
USA Thanks for all the great and timely reviews
Italy FTW
Greetings from Austria!
Keep up the good work!
United Kingdom
Always wanted a gateway pc to play with
Greetings from Michigan, USA.
could be a fun toy/tool, USA
United States of America
I’ve been considering building my own, but I wouldn’t mind this instead.
United States. Looks like a great little box to tinker with.
Greetings from Greece! That was a pleasant preview! Nice job!
USA, Love this machine and would like to give it a try.
Greetings from Cambodia
United Kingdom
Would love to play around with this. I’ve been researching setting up my own Openwrt or pfsense router for a while.
Greetings from Brazil
United States
Could make a neat travel router 🙂
Hey from Latvia!
Romania
Always wanted to test one of these one out as a router
Greetings from Sweden!
Greetings from the UK! Looking forward to seeing what else you’re giving away this week.
Nice from Spain
Appreciating your work for years – Thanks from Canada
Time flies so fast! Can’t believe it’s already the 9th edition.
Greetings from Romania.
Hello, Gary from England here
I love CNX.
This is giveaway entry from India.
Greetings from Germany! I would use it as a NAS/pi hole
United States, thank you!
Thanks from St. Petersburg, Florida USA North America.
United States here. Hope all are safe this season!
Wow, what an amazing opportunity, I’d like to get my hands on one. Greetings from the Netherlands
Fred from North America USA St. Petersburg Fl.
Hi from Italy!
I’m from the rural US. I’m just about to get terrestrial internet again for the first time in a long time. This would be a wonderful way to get back into networking!
US
Appreciate the giveaway. Here’s hoping OpenWRT catches up to the R5S soon.
United States.
Always love a π 👨💻
Iran
I like to have non-x86 high performance system. But you know, here in Iran, things went bad. Government censored the internet heavily and some platforms censored us too. My people currently in center of historical protest for freedom with #Woman, #Life and #Freedom.
In addition, accessing to new boards and chips is near impossible. If possible, due unbelievable inflation, prices are too high.
United State. Love to have a hand on this NanoPi
U.S. …. love it.
My appreciation in advance from Peru, this would make a good addition to the virtual classes I’m giving 🙂
United States!
Thanks for the chance!
A big thanks in advance from France
Spain, rafa, would love to tinker with this bad boy as a router! Thank you for the oportunity to win!
United States
fishda from Philippines!
Good stuff. Always reading your reviews on new boards.
Hello from Romania!
United States. Quite a nifty little box with potential!
Poland, router board or not, that is still RK3588.
Finland
Spain
Greetings from Malaysia.
United States
I do not have a router atm, I’m running a router in a vm on my proxmox server that is also using that router for internet access. This would be really useful to me.
United States
Good luck everyone!
Servus from Germany 🙋
and thanks for your amazing blog!
Hello from the US. thanks for the free giveaway offer!
Canada!
Thanks for running a great site.
Greetings from 9k ft in the foothills above Boulder, Colorado USA. If I win, perhaps this will round out a low voltage DC solar powered IT cabinet. Just enough ports for 2 backup internet connections and some internal wireless lans and vlans without needing a switch, and more horsepower than raspberry.
75 bucks for starters is not bad if you’d compare to similar sized router board devices.
Boulder, CO – USA
Hi, from France
Israel calling🇮🇱
I love reading the reviews and thank you for the chance to win
United States
I don’t know why I love little SBCs like this, but I do. Hoping that OpenWRT catches up to this hardware soon. Wishing I had the skill set to make the commits.
Hello from Poland 👋
USA. What a nice & tidy little box. Thanks for offering one up!
USA. Why are Pi’s so hard to get?
USA, why are raspis so hard to get?
Hi from Florida
Bonjour de Turquie d un français expat
Saludos from Spain, CNX are great!
The Netherlands, would be cool to check this out
United States!
Very interested in getting a few more SBCs together for home network projects! Thanks for the giveaway!
Would love to get my hands on one of these my old router is so bad. Thank you for a chance to win.
Hello from France.
I would be pleased to host this little boy that would probably perform better than the R2S i already own !
United States here. Looks like it would be fun to play with.
Czech Republic, also know as Czechia, also known as the land of beer.
Indonesia! I’d love to test this router!
Hello from Australia
I appreciate your hard work on this site.
Hello from Germany 🙂
Hello from Saudi Arabia.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧 I would love to use it as an OpenWRT speed test server with iperf3 and LibreSpeed headend. Plus TailScale for ease of management.
Bonsoir depuis France!
Thanks for the post and keep up this superb blog!
Romania. Following you for few years, great site. Thanks
Would love to have my own gateway/cloud in a little box to experiment with! Greetings from Germany 🙂
Thanks, from Portugal!
Hello from United States. This looks like quite a neat router setup!
Germany. Uh the R5S is on my wishlist for month now! Would be a perfect replacement for my old OpenWrt Router
Hello from Romania. I’m thinking is time to add a 2nd internet connection if i win this Pi router 🙂
Hungary represents. Please forgive us for Orban.
USA resident in need of exactly this
Thank you for offering this contest
United States (US)
Love the coverage provided by CNX
Much appreciated!
United States
Hello from the United States of America!
Greetings from UK…
USA… Would solve a gnarly networking issue in trying to resolve
Slovenia! Hi,joo 🙂
Finland. I’d love to try
Thank you for the opportunity
A hail from the United States
Slovakia :ready to test neq eouter
Spain, saludos 🙂
Canada
This cutting edge technology would change the way how routers will affect industry.
Greetings from Romania.
I would like to test this out in Belgium 🙂
Greetings from France
Singapore
🙂
Hi there from Bulgaria.
Very cool your giveaway week.
Greetings from germany!
Portugal
Russia. Thanks.
Ciao from Italy. It would be nice to experiment a bit with that new gear!
Australia – I’d have a try setting up this SBC for VPN router
Thanks for the news and the giveaway! I landed here a few months ago with some help from Google, and I’ve been coming for more info on a daily basis ever since.
Greetings from Spain
Spain 🙂
Hello from Australia
USA , or United States, Tennessee to be even more specific.. thank you for the chance!
France ! It would be nice to replace my old router !
Hello from Singapore. I owned the Nanopi R4S, a capable machine on its own, did not realize R5S would drop so soon. Is that 3 gigabut ports I see? Should be fun to experiment with.
Namaste from Nepal!
Looks like an interesting device.
Australia. Thanks heaps for cnx-software site, it’s interesting and I’ve learnt quite a bit on the hardware side from it – and also from the people who comment. Cheers
United kingdom, interesting box
United Kingdom
Good luck to everyone who enters, But please let it be me lol.
I hope everyone has a good day
Greeting from Poland
Hello from England!
Nice! Think my brother would love this! Xmas gift from me 🙂
USA. Trying to test 2.5 Gbps router.
Hello, United States. Thanks
Looks pretty sweet to me. 😎
Thanks for the giveaway!
From the United States.
Italy here!
nice giveaway, there’s a lot of comments ,chanche to win are very low, but why not.
Love the giveaway
USA btw!
Oh hi, UK here.
Loving the community growing over on Mastodon 🫶🏻
Germany. Would love to play around with this little thing. Could be a nice router between the two rock5b in the shelf 🙂
Malaysia.
Sardinia, Italy!
Thanks for your work!
Sardinia, Italy!
Thanks for your work😀
Sunny greetings from germany 🙂
Greetings from Czech
Nice
England, United Kingdom here, looks like a nifty little box of tricks…
Greetings from Japan
sunny greetings from germany
Hello from USA.
Would love to use this!
Would love to use this. Country: USA
With hope from the Netherlands. Appreciated!
Greetings from Finland
Hello from Taiwan
United States – Could use a travel router.
Greetings from China. Thank you for bring these embedded system news. You’re one of the best out there.
Howdy from Canada! Love your site ☺️
Hello from Greece!!
From Taiwan with wafer XD. Thank you for your great review and generous giveaway.
USA
Hello from United States, I like all kinds of SBC, long term subscriber!
Singapore, I really hope that I can evaluate this router, thanks for the giveaway
Great stuff. United Sates of America
Hello from SG!
Been slowly setting up my homelab, so this will be great!
Hello from Sunny and Rainy Singapore
a tech guy from Brazil
Hello by sravan from India
Hoping to it out.
From Down Under (Australia)
Hoping to try it out.
From Down Under (Australia)
United States!
I would absolutely love this!
Networking is life! Lol
Hello from the USA!
Germany
Greetings from India
Greetings from Germany!
Hi from New Jersey.
United States.
hello from shenzhen，China
Greetings from Sri Lanka
USA
Can’t wait to start a home lab if I win
Thailand
Best wishes from Lithuania!
Usa
Hello from Vietnam
Greetings from Mexico!
Been running OpenWRT with a RPi for a while now, would love to see what a competitor can bring to the table.
Canada!
United Kingdom.
Been considering one of these as an upgrade from the ISP router for a while. Some of its previous versions anyway
Canada
Want one! United States!
Thank you for gift
United States
Thanks for running this contest.
USA
This would be really cool to have and see what it can do!
Best regards from Croatia
USA
I desperately need a new router and have been researching what to get. Was leaning towards pfsense, but this would work too! Lol!
Canada can put this to great use as part of a radio over internet protocol project.
Greetings from India
USA
Good luck everyone!
Canada – great write up looking for a new travel companion. Work out of town and don’t trust hotel wifi
Greeting from Japan Good Job
US of A
Great contest!
Looking forward to doing some perf testing with this in the southern USA.
Good morning from Belgium.
India
Hello from USA!
Greetings from Romania
Hello from NH, USA
Hi from italy
Was looking for a way to order this in Romania.
Hello from New Zealand
Canada: looking to use as primary firewall for home and fledgling homelab
Maldives
USA
I like these little routers! Been looking for a good cheap one for a while now.
USA 🇺🇲
Canada!
Sweden
Sure, I’ll give it a shot.
USA
Croatia
Hello from the United States. Looks like a fun toy to tinker with
Slovenia! Wouldnt mind one 🙂
Greetings from Germany
England. Thanks for offering this giveaway
Spain. Great, I would like one
Danish geek from Denmark (obviously) 😅🤘
Would love to tinker with the nanoPi!
United Kingdom
Fingers crossed!
India
Hope to win!!
Hello World!
All the way from Germany.
Let’s go.
Greetings from Hungary
Hello from ALGERIA. Thank you for the reviews.
United States – I would certainly like this. I have a router with open wrt but it is getting long in the tooth. Please let it be me who wins!
Greetings from India… i would like some pie please.
I am from England, UK
Romania
Geek Malaysia
United Kingdom. My ISP blocks most useful features on their routers( VPN, DDNS) so I need a new one
Hallo from Belgium
Fingers crossed from Italy!
Ellesse from Hong Kong
Hello, I’m from Hong Kong.
Ukraine!
Greetings from the United States!
Luxembourg
Hello from Denmark
Greetings from the UK specifically rural Scotland
Hello from Dallas Texas, USA.
Germany
Looks like it might make for an interesting next project
Hello from the UK. I would love to have 1 as the WiFi in my bedroom is very poor.
Hello from USA!
Greetings from France!!
Missing link in my tiny house😊
Hello from New Caledonia 😉
I may send a pic of this box with our beautiful landscapes
Greetings from IRAN
Greetings from Norway.
Would love the opportunity to experiment with one of these 🙂
Hello from POLAND:) nice device, I’d love it.
USA Thank you for all you do!
Greets from Brooklyn, USA!
Poland
Thanks for the amazing content, and thank you for the opportunity. USA
USA and thank you for the offer!
Hello from Germany, love the news you collect and share
Good news! You might send it to germany 😉
New Zealand
Hopefully not outside 5he time. USA.
India…..Would like to test it
Canada
I’ve been looking to get my hands on this for my home lab!
United Kingdom
Excellent way to deliver a security gateway into my home network
Greetings from Indonesia
Here in the uk
USA!
Romania: Greetings from Romania!
Sweden. Could use a little SBC as a home automation MQTT server instead of my old PC
Romania. nice initiative
United States – cool looking piece of kit…
Greetings from Turkey!
Jerry USA
Latvia
Love the content on this site, check in everyday from the United States.
USA
United States
Cheers from Canada!
United States of America
The Netherlands.
I’d love to get my hands on one of these!
Hi from czech republic,
Need more ethernets (and internets!) 🙂
Greetings from Serbia
USA. Thanks for what you do!
Hello from the USA!
Awesome from the USA
Wouldn’t mind this in Germany 🙂
USA
USA. Would be a fun box to play around with.
And another hello from Germany.
Nice little box – even if sub-optimal, dual 2.5g ethernet is still much better than what is usually offered by SBCs.
Canada 🇨🇦
United States
Netherlands
United States. Wow that’s a lot of comments. Good luck everyone.
Happy days from Denmark
Romania
Hello from Romania !
United Kingdom
Love to get my hands on this. Thanks
The Netherlands
Would love to have a router fast enough for higher internet speeds, and be able to upgrade to 2.5 Gb for my LAN. 🙂
Greeting from Taiwan!
Thanks so much for all the product review
Netherlands
USA and love gadgets like this which can be useful for home and travel!
Hungary, I like it!
Hello from the US!
I’ve been researching the whole NanoPi for about two weeks now, but had not realized this one has an M.2 slot! MORE to think about! Such is life. Good luck everyone!
I’m from Poland
United States here! I’d love to win something, and thanks for the giveaway.
Count me in from the USA, looks very intriguing!
All the best from Germany
USA. That looks really cool!
Halo from Germany!
Hello from the United States!
Belgium.
Hello world
Australia
Germany
Greetings from the US!
This looks like a lot of fun to tinker with and build something useful for more than lining the bottom of the spare parts drawer
Greetings from Slovenija!
Israel. Very interesting product
U.S.A Thank You!
Checking in from Serbia.
I’m almost done building my home server on a budget and I could really use a mini PC like this to act as a firewall.
Greetings from Poland!
United States
greetings!!!
United States
Greetings!
Russia
Greetings from USA. Great review on the NanoPi R5S router. It would be nice to win this great tech device and generate another great review for it.
Thanks.
Hello from the United States and may the odds ever be in your favor
USA here. Looks like a nice lil router.
United States.
Live long and prosper.
United States
Live long and prosper
France
Indonesia
Halo
Indonesia
Halo om
Leo, Romania, too poor to afford that. I am not asking, I am exposing. I am proud I’ve made it.
Poland.
Thank you for your hard work!
Japan、おはようございます！
Greetings from Indonesia!
United Kingdom. Been itching to try this device out!
United Kingdom if it is not too late! Cheers!
United States
Hello from Vietnam.
Have a nice day!
Good luck to everyone from Turkey
United States
Germany
This could make a nice entry into homelabbing
USA
Hoping for a new router and to mess with OpnSense on it.
Greetings from Brasil !
Keep up with your awesome work!
Phew… last minute entry from indonesia.
always wanted to try the R5S.
Brazil.
China, greetings!
Could use this as a new router
USA
Thanks for all of the contents