[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Damon L. Chesser]

I am missing something, how are you going to use a NUC as your router?  
Dongles?

On 09/02/2015 04:36 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Next-Unit-Computing-NUC5i3RYK/dp/B00S1ISFOQ
>
> Costs just about as much as a decent 802.11ac consumer router. As far 
> as I can tell, the wireless chipset support "AP Mode" in Linux. I'd 
> probably get a USB ethernet adapter to connect it to my external 
> network, though. I'd use the on-board ethernet for my internal network.
>
> Yeah, I'm thinking this might just be done by the end of the year in 
> my house. I'm liking this plan a lot. Plus, I'd actually be able to 
> save my bandwidth logs instead of losing them every time my router 
> reboots.
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:13 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com 
> <mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Then maybe Arduino will get an 802.11ac shield at some point
>     (already has several b/g/n). Or maybe I'll skip all of that
>     shenanigans and go straight for a
>     http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
>
>     On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org
>     <mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org>> wrote:
>
>         On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:33PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>         > I was already thinking of building a router from a Raspberry
>         Pi, and this
>         > news just solidifies it. Hopefully there is an 802.11c card
>         available for
>         > it that will do monitor mode. If not, maybe soon?
>
>         The RPi is a poor choice, because it only has a single USB
>         port that's
>         not much of a performer in its own right.  (All user visible
>         ports plus
>         the ethernet port are connected via an internal hub)
>
>         (I tried to use a RPi as a hotspot for a camper, and the USB
>         performance
>          was so bad the wifi cards kept locking up under even light
>         loads..)
>
>          - Solomon
>         --
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>         Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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