<div dir="ltr"><div>I am Enlightened. Sounds like it could serve a niche.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2014 10:07 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Asus rt-n16 routers ( <a href="http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN16/" target="_blank">http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN16/</a> ) are running around $80. Mine runs Tomato ( <a href="http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato" target="_blank">http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato</a> ) 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?<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It seems the tinkering crowd is the target since it's shipping with<br>
OpenWRT installed. Apparently they sent the OpenWRT team all of the<br>
specs and SDKs/APIs for the hardware. It won't ship for a few more<br>
months. I think Belkin tried to cram everything they could into the<br>
box. Dual core 1.2GHz processor with the eSATA port and the<br>
configurable switch (multiple VLANs). We'll see what happens to prices<br>
after shipping.<br>
<br>
But your comment echos the comments of several others on Ars. The price<br>
is equivalent to some higher end devices. So it's all up to the<br>
reviews. If the thing has some crazy features that don't compare with<br>
other available options it might work.<br>
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On 1/6/2014 17:36, Ham Burger wrote:<br>
> Holy cow you could build a small pfSense box or get a MikroTik or Ubiquiti<br>
> router for that cost that can do a whole lot more. What is their target<br>
> market?<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
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> Carver<br>
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:07 PM<br>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
> Subject: [ale] New Linksys router on its way<br>
><br>
> This came out of CES today:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/linksys-resurrects-cla" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/linksys-resurrects-cla</a><br>
> ssic-blue-router-with-open-source-and-300-price/<br>
><br>
> It'll be interesting to see what the reviews of the device are when it<br>
> starts shipping.<br>
><br>
> But, it's GigE, on-board USB 3.0, on-board USB 2.0, on-board eSATA, the<br>
> entire alphabet soup of 802.11 just quite a bit more than the old WRT54G.<br>
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