[ale] New Linksys router on its way

[Alex Carver]

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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