Nice one -- I wish they woulda slammed the LinkSys WRT54GL price, say
> by making the thing only have one ethernet port.
> It'd be nice to see bluetooth DUN in these things, and prices more
> like $20-$30... then lots of devices could roam & sync.
>
Except it is supposed to be a router, and the BCM5354 has the switch
fabric built in, so you save maybe $1-$2 in BOM at most by going to 1
port and reduce the utility greatly. The single most expensive
component is probably the wifi chipset. Those typically run >$10 in
cost to the manufacturer. There are a handful of parts that MIGHT be
able to hit the price point you suggest, but there would be basically no
profit in it for the manufacturer, nor any room for customization and
hackability using linux.
-Mike
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by
accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a
structured way to write spaghetti code. --- Paul Graham
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:45 -0700, Ben Barrett wrote:
> This suggests so, yes:
> http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/10114/NETGEAR-and-Tomato-Firmware/?highlight=broadcom
> Nice one -- I wish they woulda slammed the LinkSys WRT54GL price, say
> by making the thing only have one ethernet port.
> It'd be nice to see bluetooth DUN in these things, and prices more
> like $20-$30... then lots of devices could roam & sync.
>
> ~ben
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone know what chip this uses? Is it a Broadcom?
> >
> > larry price wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.myopenrouter.com/
> >>
> >> supports tomato and dd-wrt
> >>
> >> it's good to see something being marketed as hackable.
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