[ale] Cheap hackable wifi router

[Brian Pitts]

Hi,

I noticed that open-mesh (a very cool project) is selling the Accton
MR3201A wireless router [0] for only $29! I believe this is the same or
very similar to the routers used by Fonera and Meraki. These are based
on an Atheros SoC with a 183mhz cpu, 8mb of flash, 16mb of ram, one
ethernet port, and two wifi radios. With two radios, you can run a
public network and a private, encrypted network at the same time.
They're being sold with ROBIN [1], an openwrt-based firmware that
provides dead-simple mesh networking, but you can run vanilla openwrt or
ddwrt on them as well.

Sounds cheap and easy to use, yet powerful! Check it out here [2]. They
also have a  $50 version with some more features like a watchdog chip to
automatically reset the device and support for power over ethernet.

[0] http://www.accton.com/products/product_range/21_weap/MR3201A.htm
[1] http://www.blogin.it/
[2]
https://www.open-mesh.com/store/products.php?product=Open%252dMesh-Mini%252dRouter

All the best,
Brian Pitts