>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:
Keith> While I like the ALIX better (with X86 and 3 ethernet ports), Keith> this might be a lower cost alternative for a node. Download a Keith> distro, add a USB wireless adapter on an extender, connect the Keith> ethernet port upstream, plug into a wall socket, and voila, Keith> instant node, at perhaps one third of the cost of a fully Keith> provisioned ALIX. Yeah, I was just looking at that. The single ethernet is a problem. USB wifi has not historically been a very good way of doing an AP. You might be able to do a usb-ethernet adapter and use that to talk to a real AP. You sort of lose the packaging advantages at that point, and maybe would need to roll your own. Dangling wires suck. I was prepared to order a dev-kit, to see how it worked, but they aren't available for at least another month. The Ubiquity RouterStation, which I got a sample of recently, has some problems. The third ethernet jack on the one I have (and some that other people have) doesn't work. Ubiquity seems a little overly confused about why not. Also, none of the ethernet jacks auto-mdx like you'd expect in the 21st century. I think they said there was a fix for that. Might end up RMA'd. -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
