On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:26 +0200, Dirk Nehring wrote: > I think we should concentrate on routers with a least 8 MB flash/32 MB > RAM and no EOL if they have no other interesting features (like: PCMCIA, > DSL-built-in, etc.). I would like to see support for the Fritz!Box 7170 > (built in ISDN+Analog+ADSL), but it's another plattform.
I don't think so. 4/16 are quite enough for simple tasks, and they just are cheaper. If i'd had to buy like 10 routers for some mesh, i'd be quite glad to save some hundred €. Of course, it's important to have the high-end boxen with usb and whatever, but low-end (and cheap) is also something worth to have (imho) for simple tasks. The Linksys WRT54GL costs more, and is much more ugly ;) Second thing: every product has an EOL. The SoHo products lifecycle is quite fast of course, but even a professinal product like a routerboard won't be simple to get sometimes in the future, and so you just have to switch to newer models. Again, the price makes the difference. Last but not least: i'm working on ar7-2.6 with a Fritz!Box WLAN 3030 (very simple model without phone), so whenever the phone part gets supported by OpenWRT (or someone out of our team hacks it in), you can jump onboard and support the 7170. But it still might take some time until i commit the stuff, i didn't even try to boot it yet. And i'm missing the different-kernel-versions-for-different-targets-feature i proposed some days ago. But still, if you know some other cheap box that is not already defacto EOL, tell me. I'm not totaly focused on the Buffalo, but imho its a nice completion of the lower end of our modell lineup. Bye, Lothar _______________________________________________ freewrt-developers mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-developers
