swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Dogfather
Re: Very smart
Yes!
It's too bad that when a company does something this admirable, people still snipe about feature quibbles, other products the company makes or how they're "lazy".
The big picture here is, this illustrates how open-source, liberal-licensed software creates a net social benefit. It saves the cost of each company creating their own software to do the same thing (net waste). Once the firmware is out there, everyone can benefit for a long time, and it can go on being improved, and the resources that would have been spent making proprietary versions can now be used for something more productive. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO
| If this was new tech I would agree with you, but it is not. Introducing some new current hardware and letting the OS crew debug it to save the development costs would make sense, but not using ten year old hardware that they already have tons of development money invested in. |
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wwdubbia
join:2002-06-03
Clinton, NY
| said by Lazlow  :If this was new tech I would agree with you, but it is not. Introducing some new current hardware and letting the OS crew debug it to save the development costs would make sense, but not using ten year old hardware that they already have tons of development money invested in. aren't those blue linksys boxes a little dated themselves? |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO
| Yep, they are dated. But they have had 3rd party support for a very long time(since V1 and I think they are on V7 now). What I wish they would do is reintroduce them with GigE, 48mb ram, 16 flash, a 350Mhz processors, and wireless N (I could live without the N but I need the GigE). So far as I can tell, such a box would have zero(0) competition. |
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
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join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA | »www.titanwirelessonline.com/Prod···=ExtInfo
GigE is a tall order |
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AZwldcats
Ummm That's Right
join:2001-02-20
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| Not really
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···dgl-4300 |
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
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join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| I was trying to find something that met most of what he mentioned. Short of using an old computer to do routing/AP, cheapest I found is around $250, without 802.11b/g card.
»www.routerboard.com/comparison.h···erSeries
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You can't make all the people happy all of the time. But it should be common sense to shoot for the majority. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO
| The GigE part cannot be that big of a deal. I am using a $35 5port GigE switch behind a WRT54G now. So I find it hard to believe that it would be that difficult to graft the GigE electronics into the router.
We all know that ram and flash are dirt cheap right now, so that should not be the issue. If they cannot go from a 125MHZ processor in 2002 to a 350MHZ processor now, I would find that extremely hard to believe. |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
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join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | reply to rawgerz
Hrm.. that's one overpriced RB1000 I think.
FYI it runs RouterOS from Mikrotik and it's a good OS. You can just install it on a PC and get the same benefits with a few good NIC cards. |
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
Premium
join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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I agree but for some reason they don't think people are interested in it, or have some really long contracts with their suppliers, or maybe just don't care? They are still using SDRAM these days and it's not really as cheap as DDR2 is now.
I can't believe that they (Linksys, Dlink, Netgear, etc.) still can't even make a router that won't crash with even the most basic of connections in this age.. And the fact they don't make them with integrated battery backup.
That's why I'd rather make one myself if I needed it.
It would cost a lot more but in the end you'd get what you'd pay for.
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