I agree. Removing the wired ports would make it useless to me. I use the WRT54GL as an improved *wired* router. Oh, I have a second WRT54GL for the wireless network. But because it is wireless, it is lower security. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
