On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:33:23PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 1 x IBM PS/1 '486 $50 > 2 x 3Com ethernet cards $10 > 2 x 16 megs memory SIMMs $?? -- out of 'bits' drawer.
dont forget the cdrom drive or a hard disk. it all adds up... > > so if you buy stuff to build a router, you can't beat the price of the > > wrt54g. if you build it from used parts you don't get warranty. > If you use good quality s/h parts you will not regret it. that requires research on my part what used hardware is still trustworthy. > To my mind the fact that you can upgrade and adjust the code if > necessary in a home-built gate-way is _the_ feature which surpasses > all others. uhm, i can do that on the wrt54g too. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
