Giveaway Week – NanoPi R2S gateway

Here’s the 8th edition of CNX Software giveaway week! I’ll have seven items to give away to readers in the 2021 event with some help from two companies as I was short on available samples this year.

We’ll start with NanoPi R2S gateway based on Rockchip RK3328 SoC, and equipped with 1 GB DDR4 RAM as well as two Gigabit Ethernet ports.

NanoPi R2S Giveaway

I reviewed NanoPi R2S gateway at the end of last year with Armbian built Ubuntu 20.04 Focal, and it performed well under load thanks to the metal enclosure and optimized OS. The main downside is having a USB 2.0 port, especially if you intend to use it as external storage, but that’s the cost of having two Gigabit Ethernet ports on Rockchip RK3328 SoC, with one of those using the USB 3.0 interface.

The giveaway includes the board and metal enclosure. It is already fully assembled. So you’ll just need a 5V/3A USB power adapter and MicroSD card to get started.

NanoPi R2S Heatsink Cooling

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say. 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
    • $9 for registered airmail small packet 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 11th 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 end up winning and you’d like to buy the NanoPi R2S gateway with the metal case, you can do so on Amazon or Aliexpress for $60 and up.

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Steve Hopkins
3 years ago

Thailand

Dale
Dale
3 years ago

USA

ye myat
ye myat
3 years ago

How nice if i get it. I will test board.

Anthony
Anthony
3 years ago

Singapore

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3 years ago

New Zealand

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singapore

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India

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Cam
3 years ago

Australia

Chida
Chida
3 years ago

India, looking forward to run openwrt and wireguard on this for a secure homenetwork

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Brazil

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Russian Bear
3 years ago

Russia

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James
3 years ago

Australia

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Pete
3 years ago

Australia

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Zamir
3 years ago

China.
Thanks for the various informative articles on CNX!

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Germany

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Jean-François Rochard
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France

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Hasan Başar Oral
3 years ago

Turkey and thanks for the review

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Jean-François
3 years ago

France

Ted Lin
Ted Lin
3 years ago

Taiwan

Tom
3 years ago

Taiwan.

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3 years ago

Hello

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3 years ago

Thailand

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Rogan Dawes
3 years ago

South Africa

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GuidoL
3 years ago

Greetings from Turkey

3 years ago

Poland 🙂 and my New dev kit, thanks to ikea for tablet stand

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Turkey

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Poland

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3 years ago

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Klaudiusz
3 years ago

Poland

Daniel
Daniel
3 years ago

Sweden!

Loïc
Loïc
3 years ago

Hello from Switzerland !
Thanks 🙂

Ake
Ake
3 years ago

I’d like to have it. Thailand

KotCzarny
3 years ago

poland

Chirag A
3 years ago

India 🇮🇳

Vincent Dimitriou
Vincent Dimitriou
3 years ago

France. Great asset I would love to try out ! Great job on cnx !

Martin Vancl
3 years ago

Czech Republic

Anthony.h
Anthony.h
3 years ago

France !!

Martin F
Martin F
3 years ago

Germany

khancyr
khancyr
3 years ago

France ! Thanks for your work and give a hope for those boards you test a new life

Lacko835
Lacko835
3 years ago

Hungary

Pim Vullers
Pim Vullers
3 years ago

Netherlands

maurer
maurer
3 years ago

Romania. I really want one !

Patrice Tisserand
3 years ago

France

Nikola Samardzic
Nikola Samardzic
3 years ago

Serbia

Nikodem Czechowski
Nikodem Czechowski
3 years ago

Poland

Evgeni
Evgeni
3 years ago

Germany

Francesco Valla
Francesco Valla
3 years ago

Italy!

michael zweers
michael zweers
3 years ago

The Netherlands, give away week. just want the doctor prescribed 🙂

fape
fape
3 years ago

Hungary. Keep up the good work!

Abbadon
Abbadon
3 years ago

Netherlands. Love the reviews, love the giveaways!

Alexandre Assouad
Alexandre Assouad
3 years ago

France

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3 years ago

Greetings from Sweden!

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3 years ago

Poland

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3 years ago

France

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xdcc_master
3 years ago

Germany

Branko
Branko
3 years ago

Serbia

nouknouk
nouknouk
3 years ago

France, I would love to replace my ISP router by this one with openwrt.

michael Z
michael Z
3 years ago

Greece

david
david
3 years ago

Australia, would be nice to win

Ze
Ze
3 years ago

Greetings from Germany 🙂

Riccardo M.
Riccardo M.
3 years ago

Italy

Jerome T
Jerome T
3 years ago

Thanks for all your review

Jerome T
Jerome T
3 years ago

I forget, I’m from France

V P
V P
3 years ago

Finland

Bertrand L
Bertrand L
3 years ago

A good fit to replace my current openmptcprouteur 🙂

France.

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Malik Cissé
3 years ago

France

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Manuel Vázquez
3 years ago

Spain

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3 years ago

Netherlands

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3 years ago

Germany

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Peter Roberts
3 years ago

Malaysia

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Guillaume LEVEQUE
3 years ago

france

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PhilS
3 years ago

England

aldo
3 years ago

Italy

Hong S.
Hong S.
3 years ago

USA. It’s good for running OpenWrt

Tropicao
Tropicao
3 years ago

France !

JF002
3 years ago

Belgium!

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3 years ago

Germany

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Alex
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Russia

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3 years ago

Russia

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3 years ago

Germany

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Laurent
3 years ago

France

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chunga
3 years ago

FRANCE

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Star Platinum
3 years ago

Japan!

David A.M.
David A.M.
3 years ago

Spain here!
New reader this year from the telegram channel!

Keep up the good work!

Inkyubasu
Inkyubasu
3 years ago

Italy

daniel carter
daniel carter
3 years ago

new zealand

Caio Pedreira
Caio Pedreira
3 years ago

Brazil. I’m in!

Javier
Javier
3 years ago

Spain, thanks!

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Dinh Phan
3 years ago

Never luck at the giveaway

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mpampis
3 years ago

Greece

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3 years ago

Poland

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Luigi Capriotti
3 years ago

Denmark, cheers!

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Sergey Pavlenko
3 years ago

Russia

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Phuong.N
3 years ago

Vietnam, It’s good to study Openwrt

Phuong.N
Phuong.N
3 years ago

Vietnam

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Andrei
3 years ago

Greetings from Brazil !

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3 years ago

Australia

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3 years ago

Thailand

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Serbia

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3 years ago

Croatia

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inspector
3 years ago

Russia

Marc J Gillis
Marc J Gillis
3 years ago

USA

Peter Elliot
Peter Elliot
3 years ago

United States

Parthiban
3 years ago

Germany.
Thanks for your posts and engaging information on hardware.

Daniel D.
Daniel D.
3 years ago

Germany. Let it come to Germany!

Simon John
Simon John
3 years ago

England, would make a lovely router/firewall and save me buying a Celeron

Luís Costa e Silva
Luís Costa e Silva
3 years ago

Portugal
Thank you for the opportunity.

3 years ago

France.
Thank you so much for your work.

Jeff stahler
Jeff stahler
3 years ago

It would be great to get. I would show it on you tube. It would be nice.

David Willmore
David Willmore
3 years ago

U.S.A.

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Erik
3 years ago

Sweden

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Cristiano Maciel
3 years ago

Brazil, your reviews are awesome!

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lademan
3 years ago

France 😀

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Philip
3 years ago

France

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3 years ago

USA!

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The Netherlands

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3 years ago

UK

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3 years ago

Latvia

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3 years ago

Indonesia, wkwkwk

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Rohit
3 years ago

Country: India

Grzegorz Drozd
Grzegorz Drozd
3 years ago

Poland

tvall
tvall
3 years ago

United States
dual gig ethernet on a rk3328 sounds like fun.

Huynh Thanh Tu
Huynh Thanh Tu
3 years ago

Viet Nam
Thank you for your embedded infomations

Aashitech
3 years ago

India

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Serge Chirik
3 years ago

Belarus

Kumar Gala
Kumar Gala
3 years ago

US

Wenle Zheng
3 years ago

U>S>A

Kamil
Kamil
3 years ago

Poland – great work BTW.

Scott Young
Scott Young
3 years ago

Canada, eh!

Krzysztof
Krzysztof
3 years ago

Poland

Jim G
Jim G
3 years ago

USA

ARMy
ARMy
3 years ago

Ukraine

Kurt
Kurt
3 years ago

USA

Mark Strauch
Mark Strauch
3 years ago

United States

Steve Sexton
3 years ago

United States

Rob Jordan
3 years ago

UK. What a nice little device!

Alex
3 years ago

Ukraine

L_oled
3 years ago

France

Chris Lee
Chris Lee
3 years ago

Greeting from Singapore!

Oren
3 years ago

Singapore. Thanks for the giveaway!

jbowen
3 years ago

United States

Love SBC-based home infrastructure 🙂

solipso
solipso
3 years ago

Czech Republic [CZ] is a beautiful country with wonderful nature and rich historic heritage conserved thaks to the communist-era stagnation. You should definitely visit us here.

Jan
Jan
3 years ago

Poland

Dru Nelson
Dru Nelson
3 years ago

USA – this will make a nice router with DNS filtering

rui cruz
rui cruz
3 years ago

Portugal

Eric
Eric
3 years ago

The United States of America
(Republic of California)

Sean
Sean
3 years ago

Canada

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Wargn
3 years ago

Germany

lampra
lampra
3 years ago

HELLAS aka greece

Brice
Brice
3 years ago

China

Tim
Tim
3 years ago

USA – Would love to play around with one of these!

khiem lq
khiem lq
3 years ago

Vietnam

Catalin Toda
Catalin Toda
3 years ago

USA

Martijn
Martijn
3 years ago

The Netherlands

Rob Logan
3 years ago

New York, USA

Carlos Santos
Carlos Santos
3 years ago

Portugal

CHRIS
CHRIS
3 years ago

thanks for this. usa

Jon Mott
Jon Mott
3 years ago

USA

NETeagle
NETeagle
3 years ago

France

Mert Atakan
Mert Atakan
3 years ago

Turkey, need for avoiding state tracking

Szymon Silski
Szymon Silski
3 years ago

Poland

Kira
Kira
3 years ago

France

Arvo
Arvo
3 years ago

Latvia

Kevin Wang
Kevin Wang
3 years ago

USA

Mati
Mati
3 years ago

Poland

Kubo
Kubo
3 years ago

Slovakia

Frank Earl
Frank Earl
3 years ago

USA. Keep doing what you do. This is one of the best ways for all of us to find out about this stuff.

wanderer_
3 years ago

+1

Adam Słodki
Adam Słodki
3 years ago

Poland

wanderer_
3 years ago

United States

Angelos Chatzikostas
3 years ago

Malta, EU 🙂

Ronald E. Knight
Ronald E. Knight
3 years ago

Hi, I need to win something, USA

Christian Lambert
Christian Lambert
3 years ago

USA

Isidoros Gkantsidis
Isidoros Gkantsidis
3 years ago

Greece

3 years ago

Poland, I hope that you can see my e-mail attached to my WordPress Account.

Elsa Nunes
Elsa Nunes
3 years ago

Portugal
Thank you!

Mietek
Mietek
3 years ago

Poland

3 years ago

I was more curious about this version because I used the previous version.
Greetings from Turkey.

Mark Birss
Mark Birss
3 years ago

South Africa

kamber simsek
3 years ago

turkey

Ales Pycha
Ales Pycha
3 years ago

Czech Republic

Mitko
3 years ago

Bulgaria, looks interesting

Klemens Häckel
Klemens Häckel
3 years ago

Paraguay

itchy n scratchy
itchy n scratchy
3 years ago

Switzerland

Hicham Benyoucef
Hicham Benyoucef
3 years ago

France

Phil
Phil
3 years ago

Greetings from Austria

TonyT
TonyT
3 years ago

USA

Christian
Christian
3 years ago

Germany

Frulko
Frulko
3 years ago

France
By the way, thanks for this website you are do an amazing job !
Thank you !

Mattia
Mattia
3 years ago

Italy

Erki
3 years ago

Estonia

Sergej Komov
Sergej Komov
3 years ago

Latvia

Jarek
Jarek
3 years ago

Poland

Rachid
Rachid
3 years ago

Morocco

Åke Hedman
3 years ago

Los in the middle of Sweden

David
David
3 years ago

Divided States of America – Let’s Go Brandon!

Vasco
3 years ago

Portugal

Serge
3 years ago

Germany

jansen cesar arruda
jansen cesar arruda
3 years ago

Brazil here

GTurkeli
GTurkeli
3 years ago

Turkey. Good luck everyone:)

Jerry Nguyen
3 years ago

Australia 🇦🇺

Piotr
Piotr
3 years ago

Poland!

wboz88
wboz88
3 years ago

Wow! So many people want this! Not me though 😀
I’ll put my country in another one of giveaways I’m sure.

Garrett
3 years ago

USA

Arp Rip
3 years ago

Taiwan

Bela
Bela
3 years ago

Belgium

suriyan
suriyan
3 years ago

Thailand

Anthony DiLello
Anthony DiLello
3 years ago

United States

Benjamin
Benjamin
3 years ago

Canada

Tomek
Tomek
3 years ago

Poland

Joseph
Joseph
3 years ago

Hong Kong

Hartraft
Hartraft
3 years ago

Belgium

Anor Neto
Anor Neto
3 years ago

Brazil

Kwlee
Kwlee
3 years ago

Malaysia

Mike
3 years ago

Greece

Erick
Erick
3 years ago

United States

Michael K Warner
Michael K Warner
3 years ago

United States of America

Bruno Capobiango
Bruno Capobiango
3 years ago

Brazil – great site Jean-Luc, thx!!

Katie
Katie
3 years ago

USA

Thomas Hollier
3 years ago

Yes, please… 🙂

Sfinx
Sfinx
3 years ago

Ukraine

yasno ponyatno
3 years ago

Belarus

Україна
Україна
3 years ago

Ukraine

Adam C
Adam C
3 years ago

US Thanks for the invite

Magnus
Magnus
3 years ago

Finland

Thomas
Thomas
3 years ago

Germany

frostwork
frostwork
3 years ago

Looks interesting! 🙂

frostwork
frostwork
3 years ago

Germany

Barnaby
Barnaby
3 years ago

UK

littleyoda
littleyoda
3 years ago

Germany

Sathish Guru V
Sathish Guru V
3 years ago

India.

May the odds be ever in my favor!

Sercan DEMIRHAN
Sercan DEMIRHAN
3 years ago

Turkey

lifelion
lifelion
3 years ago

France

gizme
gizme
3 years ago

Taiwan
A far more powerful replacement for my current home Firewall / NAT-router.

Ray
Ray
3 years ago

Belgium

Haze
Haze
3 years ago

france

Rudi
Rudi
3 years ago

Australia

pi-r
pi-r
3 years ago

Poland

jan dan
jan dan
3 years ago

Luxembourg

Jota.nr
Jota.nr
3 years ago

Hello from Spain

TMT
TMT
3 years ago

Spain. I’m in

gruzija
3 years ago

Macedonia

Alexandre Assouad
Alexandre Assouad
3 years ago

France

serwus
serwus
3 years ago

Poland

Kovacs Robert
Kovacs Robert
3 years ago

Hungary

christophe rousseau
christophe rousseau
3 years ago

france

great competition

Bart
Bart
3 years ago

The Netherlands

Karpiu
Karpiu
3 years ago

Poland. Sorry for the duplicated entry, country was missing.

Preisschild
Preisschild
3 years ago

Austria

X4lldux
X4lldux
3 years ago

Poland

Rishav
Rishav
3 years ago

India

3 years ago

Portugal

Nicolas Marshall
3 years ago

France

tomaz
tomaz
3 years ago

Slovenia

Mike
3 years ago

United States

Cheers!

Ken M
Ken M
3 years ago

USA

Ivan Milanovic
Ivan Milanovic
3 years ago

Serbia

Frans
Frans
3 years ago

Netherlands

sirrab
sirrab
3 years ago

USA

Rob Leighton
Rob Leighton
3 years ago

United Kingdom

Sheng
Sheng
3 years ago

Canada

Miliadis Lazaros
Miliadis Lazaros
3 years ago

Greece. Keep up the excellent job.

Marques
Marques
3 years ago

France

Robert
Robert
3 years ago

USA

pere
pere
3 years ago

Spain

Gianluigi
Gianluigi
3 years ago

Italy

Lukasz
Lukasz
3 years ago

Poland

pingi
pingi
3 years ago

CH

Afranio
Afranio
3 years ago

Brazil. Cool product.

3 years ago

The Netherlands

Perfect for OpenVoiceOS support / development.

jiyan
jiyan
3 years ago

Greece

Mustafa Kurt
Mustafa Kurt
3 years ago

Germany

Solmis
Solmis
3 years ago

Finland

Sebestyén Krisztián Tamás
Sebestyén Krisztián Tamás
3 years ago

Hungary

Fernando
Fernando
3 years ago

France

Marius
Marius
3 years ago

Hi from Romania.

Mati
3 years ago

Israel

Ismael
Ismael
3 years ago

Spain

Francisco Garcia
Francisco Garcia
3 years ago

Chile, this board would habe been great for tinyPilot

Kedar Koppikar
3 years ago

Home Server

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