Throughput. The single Ethernet port on the Pi only gets somewhere between 30 and 40 megabits. Some smartphones can exceed this on WiFi and higher end Internet connections will definitely exceed this.
That's for a single connection before you even get to NAT/firewalls/IPv6 and VPNs.
Note that I haven't put the Pi3 through its paces yet but the extra CPU and RAM won't completely compensate for the USB/Ethernet limitations.
That's for a single connection before you even get to NAT/firewalls/IPv6 and VPNs.
Note that I haven't put the Pi3 through its paces yet but the extra CPU and RAM won't completely compensate for the USB/Ethernet limitations.