I agree with your approach Allen, and your notes, Mike... and as impressive as it is that we have such a device now for under $100, I think we're ready for a very configurable & versatile WAP for under $30. The BT DUN idea just popped into my head... I dusted off the N770 recently and have been thinking about handheld devices again (as usual...).
The price point is going to fall. Yesteryear's chipsets will be good enough, next year :) ~ben On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
