Hi, On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > We (Rutgers) have an application for a bunch of small/cheap boxes that > can do wi-fi and/or bluetooth, capable or running Linux. > > We are currently using ALIX boxes and some Soekris 4826 (basically a > 4801 with a couple of mini-pci slots populated with wi-fi cards) but > we'd like to find something newer (the 4826 is no longer being > manufactured) and cheaper, so we can deploy on wider scale than our > current dozen or so nodes. > > The application is a real-time tracking and locating system. We > currently cover the Computer Science building, but we'd like to go > outside and cover a significant section of the campus. > > Anybody got any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Rick
I have had great success with Ubiquiti products (http://www.ubnt.com) running OpenWRT. They are wifi only but are cheap and OpenWRT is a pretty capable Linux distro. The APs can be had for around $40 per unit so they are inexpensive. However the lack of bluetooth might be a deal breaker. You may want to look in them. I could not be happier with our setup. -- _ /-\ ndrew Niemantsverdriet Academic Computing (406) 238-7360 Rocky Mountain College 1511 Poly Dr. Billings MT, 59102 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
