[ale] New Linksys router on its way

[Alex Carver]

If the reviews work out well I'm considering one to replace my main
gateway WRT.  Having the ability to drop a small eSATA drive on it would
be handy for logs.  Currently both of my WRTs log remotely but a local
copy would be fantastic.  I  could also use it to handle storage of
photos from the security cameras as a duplicate to the emails that get
sent out.  I don't think I'd use it as any sort of NAS itself if it's my
gateway device but certainly for logs and transient storage (like the
photos) being able to dangle a non-flash drive off an already running
device would be handy.

On 1/7/2014 07:59, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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.
> On Jan 7, 2014 10:07 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.