On an impulse, I bought a wifi router at Microcenter a few days ago, thinking that heck for $25 I wouldn't mind have an upgrade from "g" to "n". Now I see you can get this for $19.99. It plugged right in and did what I want out of the box. Why bother posting such a pedestrian purchase to this list? Here were the surprises:
* My P3 Kill-A-Watt reports 1 watt (vs. WRT-54G, 5 watts) * The vendor supplies full GPL source code on its website * It's on the OpenWRT hardware compatibility list I don't yet see a reason to swap out the vendor's software for OpenWRT but I found it interesting that prices for a "Linux box" have dropped below $20. Admittedly, it's only a 400MHz CPU with only 32Mb of RAM, but it does have 5 100Mbit Ethernet ports and firmware that, off the shelf, does more than my old faithful Linksys. Amazon reviews for the product are lukewarm but I suspect most of them are for early hardware revs. Anyone else here have comments about the TRENDnet routers? -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
