[ale] New Linksys router on its way

[Charles Shapiro]

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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