$26 WiFi 6 router board features Triductor TR6560 & TR5220 chips

Banana Pi BPI-Wifi 6 is an ultra-low-cost WiFi 6 router board with five Gigabit Ethernet ports based on Triductor Technology TR6560 dual-core Cortex-A9 router SoC and TR5220 WiFi 6 chipset and that sells for just $26.32 plus shipping on Aliexpress, or $39.99 as part of a kit with the board, four antennas, and a 12V power supply.

The board is equipped with 512MB RAM and a 128MB SPI flash for OpenWrt, comes with four antenna connectors for WiFi, and can also take an optional 12V PoE module for power instead of relying on a 12V power adapter via a DC jack.

Banana Pi BPI WiFi 6 board

Banana Pi BPI-WiFi 6 board specifications:

  • SoC – Triductor TR6560 dual-core Arm Cortex-A9 processor @ 1.2 GHz with LSW (Line-Card Switching) and hardware NAT up to 5 Gbps
  • WiFi chipset – Triductor TR5220 WiFi 6 chipset
  • System Memory – 512 MB DDR3
  • Storage – 128MB SPI NAND flash
  • Networking
    • 1x Gigabit Ethernet WAN port with optional PoE support
    • 4x Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
    • 2.4 GHz WiFi 6 (802.11ax) 2×2 MIMO up to 573.5 Mbps
    • 5 GHz WiFi 6 (802.11ax) 2×2 MIMO up to 2401.9 Mbps
    • 4x U.FL antenna connector
    • WiFi supports AP and STA modules, WPA, WPA2, WPA3 security
  • Debugging – 6-pin debug UART header
  • Misc – Power switch, Reset button, WPS button, 9x LEDs
  • Power Supply
  • Dimensions – 137 x 107 mm

TR6560 WiFi 6 router board

The board runs OpenWrt, but no source code is provided at this time, and we only have a binary image (tgp3.1.0-rc4-THG6500-TAX2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin) available for download through the Wiki for the board. The video below shows the board powered by PoE and booting to OpenWrt with Linux 5.10.138 and running the LuCi web interface.

Triductor Technology is a chip design company headquartered in Suzhou, China, and they appear to specialize in router and PLC chips. The SoC page has one dual-core Cortex-A9 router SoC for xDSL gateways, but nothing about the TR6560 processor, and the WiFi page features a couple of wireless chips but the TR5220 found in the Banana Pi BPI-WiFi 6 board is nowhere to be found. Searching the web for TR6560 on Google and Baidu always brings up the Banana Pi board, so it does not look like other companies are using the chips yet.

Banana Pi should probably design an enclosure for this type of board and sells it as a complete WiFi 6 router for under $50, although the lack of source code is worrying for a router. I’ve had a look at WiFi 6 routers on Amazon, and the cheapest I could find is the TP-Link Archer AX10 going for $59.99 but with the combined speed limited to 1,500 Mbps (AX1500 router).

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maurer
maurer
1 year ago

openwrt community says there will never be official support for this board https://forum.openwrt.org/t/a-new-cheap-26-bpi-ax3000-router/164455/4

Neorej
Neorej
1 year ago

Would be good if the openwrt crew could actually stop sinovoip making use of the (misleading) openwrt (advertisement) for their products

Willy
1 year ago

Yes it’s particularly misleading, it’s just the binary resulting from a fork of openwrt. We’re way past the “fair use” or “oops sorry I thought it was OK to call it like this”, this looks deliberately misleading. If it were an accident, at least the sources would be provided with it. And if buildable sources are not provided, it’s a blatant violation of various licenses involved in the project, GPL first. It’s really annoying to see vendors proceed like this. In the past I’ve spent a lot of time distributing free hardware (glinet repurposed in a load balancer) for students… Read more »

Neorej
Neorej
1 year ago

Stopped reading at

> The board runs OpenWrt, but no source code is provided

Original banaware – nothing to buy

lionnwang
1 year ago

we have discussed with Triductor, and will update source code

lionnwang
1 year ago

Yes, we are trying to work in this direction, and then let all chip manufacturers to do in this direction, this is the meaning of we do this thing

iSiDoRoS
iSiDoRoS
1 year ago

Very good post and interesting board. However I see that the basic board cost 50€ shipped to Greece. You can find on AliExpress the Redmi AX3000 at the same cost including case, antennae and there’s some work porting openwrt for this and similar Redmi routers but with 256mb ram.
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DnFrT4N

ValdikSS
ValdikSS
1 year ago

Truductor seem to be another anti-sanction name for Hisilicon/Huawei chips, which in turn are Broadcom licensee (as far as I remember).

The file /lib/modules/5.10.138/wifi_debug.ko inside firmware’s squashfs contains the following string:
[HCC_TEST][WIFI]########Hi110x SDIO Test## Used %llu seconds##########

https://github.com/XePeleato/Hi1101_HisiWifi

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