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Very weird ethernet setup. Gives you a 2.5g port so you could take advantage of the faster fiber many people have access to now, but only a 1g port so you can't even use the benefits of the faster network on your wired LAN. Not something most people's internet connections care about, but a weird thing to include regardless; it would have been better to leave them both 1g ports and shave $5+ off the sales price.
I'm sure this is a limit of the commodity chipset but it honestly doesn't have a place in the network I'm planning to build out as fully 2.5g compatible next year.
You can run a router with just one Ethernet port on it. That's what subnets are for.
Also, if they only had two gigabit ports with WiFi, they'd be directly competing with the nano-pi for market share. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=296
Still, I'm actually with you. That is a weird choice to make.
Subnets...do you mean VLANs?
Or sub interfaces?