I wanted to be able to do wifi aircaps at scale, So I figured I'd load up a nuc with a bunch of usb wifi sticks. I got a w(hole bunch of those - the horrors! the horrors that the drivers revealed...
then I ran across the compute stick phenomenon, Holy cow, 59 dollars for an entire computer - with wifi on board. http://news.softpedia.com/news/meet-mele-pcg02u-a-fanless-intel-bay-trail-pc-stick-running-ubuntu-14-t04-lts-503064.shtml?utm_content=bufferb3dfe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer The funny thing is that I didn't want to transfer the caps across the air... I figured I could set up usb *networking* on one of these, and it's certainly fast enough to capture the air and drive tests. There are a couple older models out there in the same price range... http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Compute-STCK1A8LFC-Z3735F-Ubuntu/dp/B00W7KAABK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460990238&sr=8-1&keywords=ubuntu+compute+stick and newer ones do 802.11ac. But it asks a question - if basic wifi-only + compute has fallen so low, is ethernet dead? Every TV I've seen has both ethernet and wifi, I have no idea what percentage of real users are setting up ethernet vs wifi on them. (anyone?) What I sort of hope for is that your TV could become part of the routing infrastructure in the house - *wired* - so you could attach more devices to it that wouldn't need their own connections... Can hdmi actually be used as part of a routing architecture? Could USB3? How far along is MOCA these days... You'd plug your compute stick or handheld into the tv and boom, be online... anyone know of a hackable modern tv? I - like many others - am really temped by the 50 inch UHD tvs you can get now - to use as a monitor. But although many tvs have a ton of open source components, I don't know of any I can compile a new kernel for, or run babeld on. -- Dave Täht Save BoatyMcBoatFace from extinction by humorless science ministers! https://twitter.com/hashtag/boatymcboatface _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
