@eric @munir @kirby dell wyse I got for $30. initially it booted from internal 4gb mmc but I moved it to a usb stick I had laying around. it has a usb attached hdd too but it's exclusively for my torrent files, it was like $50. so if you count the thumb stick it adds up to around $90. power usage is like 10$ a year if even that
I guess I don't need a modem, I can just set the isp thing to bridge. I don't want to pay for worse hardware, and I want good software to do the vlan, so I'm looking for wi-fi 6 capable openwrt router (if I were the only one using it for connection I wouldn't mind downgrading, but that's not the case). there's some asuses for $60, cheaper than I thought, so if I dig for a while I can probably easily hunt down something for $40 or less. I plop that on and get another $10 of power usage a year... yeah I'm not doing that