[ale] New Linksys router on its way

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu (Watson, Keith)]

Liksys claims they "worked" with OpenWRT. You should hear what the guys at OpenWRT think about how well Linksys "worked" with them.

Chaos Communication Congress - 10 Years of Fun with Embedded Devices - How OpenWrt evolved from a WRT54G firmware to an universal Embedded Linux OS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-OlUxeS57E

keith

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Charles Shapiro
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 10:02
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] New Linksys router on its way
> 
> 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.
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