>>>>> "Johan" == Johan Beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Johan> What little I've seen of the ALIX board impressed me. Johan> But, is the cost including mouting hardware and the minipci Johan> wifi card? The $173 price tag strikes me that it doesn't. Johan> Am I correct to assume no chassis and transplanting the Johan> existing wifi card from the nucab? No. The existing nucabs are almost uniformily headless 233MHz two-ethernet port recycled PCs acting as routers with no built-in wifi. They draw about 60W each. The Alix draws 6W or less. The reason we did it this way historically is that we had cast-off PC's donated to us. We had more time and parts than money. It also allowed us to use any old wireless access point, and we could just plug the cat5 from the nucab into the wireless device's LAN port and it bridges for us. The nucab/alix can be near power and the DSL modem, while the wireless access point can be located near where people use it. The $173 includes the board, small enclosure, the CF and power supply. The enclosure is for indoors and doesn't need mounting hardware beyond the little rubber feet it comes with. Because this Alix board has three ethernet interfaces, places like the Lucky Lab that has two AP's could be connected directly (bridging eth1 and eth2) and we could eliminate the network switch we have there as well. In other locations, we could use the extra ethernet port to While this Alix board *can* have a wifi radio installed (it has one mini-pci slot), in most of these nucab replacement scenarios, we wouldn't. The node already has a working wireless device. Just unplug the cat5 cables from the nucab and plug them into the Alix and away you go. -- Russell Senior, Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
