[ale] New Linksys router on its way

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 12:55:37 EST 2014


I am Enlightened.  Sounds like it could serve a niche.

-- CHS



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not just esata, it's a much more stout gizmo being built with ddwrt
> and others in mind. Esata will allow a multiple drive box to be added.
> Most peeps will be fine with the Asus gear . Micro center price on Asus is
> $100.
> On Jan 7, 2014 10:07 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Asus rt-n16 routers ( http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN16/ ) are
>> running around $80. Mine runs Tomato ( http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) without issues that I can detect. It has a couple of USB ports which you
>> can connect to networked printers or external hard drives, which Tomato
>> supports.   Is eSATA worth almost four times the price?
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
>>
>>> It seems the tinkering crowd is the target since it's shipping with
>>> OpenWRT installed.  Apparently they sent the OpenWRT team all of the
>>> specs and SDKs/APIs for the hardware.  It won't ship for a few more
>>> months.  I think Belkin tried to cram everything they could into the
>>> box.  Dual core 1.2GHz processor with the eSATA port and the
>>> configurable switch (multiple VLANs).  We'll see what happens to prices
>>> after shipping.
>>>
>>> But your comment echos the comments of several others on Ars.  The price
>>> is equivalent to some higher end devices.  So it's all up to the
>>> reviews.  If the thing has some crazy features that don't compare with
>>> other available options it might work.
>>>
>>> On 1/6/2014 17:36, Ham Burger wrote:
>>> > Holy cow you could build a small pfSense box or get a MikroTik or
>>> Ubiquiti
>>> > router for that cost that can do a whole lot more. What is their target
>>> > market?
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Alex
>>> > Carver
>>> > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:07 PM
>>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>> > Subject: [ale] New Linksys router on its way
>>> >
>>> > This came out of CES today:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/linksys-resurrects-cla
>>> > ssic-blue-router-with-open-source-and-300-price/
>>> >
>>> > It'll be interesting to see what the reviews of the device are when it
>>> > starts shipping.
>>> >
>>> > But, it's GigE, on-board USB 3.0, on-board USB 2.0, on-board eSATA, the
>>> > entire alphabet soup of 802.11 just quite a bit more than the old
>>> WRT54G.
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > Ale mailing list
>>> > Ale at ale.org
>>> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>>> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>> >
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > Ale mailing list
>>> > Ale at ale.org
>>> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>>> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Ale mailing list
>>> Ale at ale.org
>>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ale mailing list
>> Ale at ale.org
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20140107/8303cc88/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Ale mailing list