tachyons - cool
This is explains why my wifi is so much better now.
I must be installing one of these some time in the future ...
Bill McGonigle wrote:
Only because the pedantic salvo was fired. :) ...
On Jul 6, 2008, at 04:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hats off to
Linksys for
Only because the pedantic salvo was fired. :) ...
On Jul 6, 2008, at 04:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hats off to
Linksys for introducing the first SOHO router capable of transmitting
its data signals over tachyons...
Quote from the product specifications on newegg:
MIMO technology
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:16:07 -0400
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
USB and GigE too; neat.
Hopefully that is true. The port line in the specs says
Ports 1 x 10/100M WAN; 4 x 10/100M LAN
NewEgg's never
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:39 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Jul 3, 2008, at 13:04, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Say, if anybody's seen a small (vs. a standard PC stuffed full of PCI
cards) a/b/g/n unit that can handle the openwrt-ish open firmwares,
please let me know. Apparently, since the
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
USB and GigE too; neat.
Hopefully that is true. The port line in the specs says
Ports 1 x 10/100M WAN; 4 x 10/100M LAN
NewEgg's never been terribly good at transcribing mfg specs. Like
their slogan says, Once you
On Jul 1, 2008, at 19:54, Alex Hewitt wrote:
I just read the End User License Agreement that came with one of my
customer's Juniper Networks Netscreen appliances and it basically has
the same nontransferable rights clause that Cisco uses. Same deal,
you can't sell your used Netscreen
And, FWIW, I've got a couple dozen WRT-54G[S,L,v4,v3,v2]* units
in the field and the only one that's failed had taken a lightning
strike. My oldest one is now 5 years old, so at $50-ish, I owe
them nothing.
Closer to $41 today if you can stomach a mail-in rebate:
Minor warning: OpenVPN is configured NOT to check for revoked certificates
by default. (Default install on Debian, anyway, and I suspect it's similar
elsewhere.) Not likely a big deal for home use, but for business use
fortunately I was careful enough to check a known-revoked certificate the
Oh, but it gets better. If that Cisco box hasn't been on a
maintenance contract, you have to have it tested and recertified by
an authorized VAR before you can buy a new maintenance contract on it
so you can then buy the IOS image.
Thanks for bringing back really horrible memories (sigh).
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Contrast with HP: download firmware updates from the website.
Hardware can be slightly more expensive up front, and they've only
gotten really solid for things like VLAN's in the past couple years.
I've found the
Closer to $41 today if you can stomach a mail-in rebate:
Or even less than that if you're purchasing even a handful at once and act
as a reseller. It's really not worth it for most computer components,
pricewatch is often lower than *your* wholesale cost, but networking gear
it's very much
On Thu, July 3, 2008 1:18 pm, Drew Van Zandt said:
Minor warning: OpenVPN is configured NOT to check for revoked certificates
by default. (Default install on Debian, anyway, and I suspect it's
similar
elsewhere.) Not likely a big deal for home use, but for business use
fortunately I
On 7/3/08, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, July 3, 2008 1:18 pm, Drew Van Zandt said:
Minor warning: OpenVPN is configured NOT to check for revoked certificates
by default. (Default install on Debian, anyway, and I suspect it's
similar
That's odd; whenever I installed it, I
On Thursday 03 July 2008 15:15, John Abreau wrote:
On Thu, July 3, 2008 1:18 pm, Drew Van Zandt said:
Minor warning: OpenVPN is configured NOT to check for revoked
certificates by default. (Default install on Debian, anyway, and I
suspect it's similar
elsewhere.) Not likely a big deal
On Jul 3, 2008, at 13:04, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Say, if anybody's seen a small (vs. a standard PC stuffed full of PCI
cards) a/b/g/n unit that can handle the openwrt-ish open firmwares,
please let me know. Apparently, since the Aussies shut down Buffalo
in patent court they don't exist.
To
On Jul 3, 2008, at 13:30, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
Otherwise what would keep a person from not having a maintenance
contract, allowing the system to break, and then getting a contract
when
it does break? At least CISCO gave you a path for putting it back on
maintenance or buying used
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:05 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I'll spend more time learning how to use OpenVPN...
If you've got experience configuring other VPNs, you'll probably
find OpenVPN is really easy. I've got
... I've not really been
interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the
hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I
was glad to see this.
On the other hand, I've had the only Netgear that I owned crap out too. To be
fair, it provided
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 09:17 -0400, Bill Freeman wrote:
... I've not really been
interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the
hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I
was glad to see this.
On the other hand, I've had the only
On July 01, 2008, Alex Hewitt sent me the following:
Bill beat me to the punch on this. I've had plenty of bad
hardware/firmware from both Netgear and LinkSys. D-Link will also find
detractors for pretty much the same reasons. The issue for me with
these brands is the relatively poor support.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it was really designed for hacking it'd include more flash, ram, and
pinouts for expanding/hacking the hardware.
Designed for hacking is relative. When LinkSys, NetGear, et. al.,
say that, what they mean is:
A1. It has
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I've never had any problems with my two WRT54G units ...
I could tell war stories for any given brand.
For pretty much everything in this product space (NetGear, LinkSys,
D-Link, Belkin, etc.), they're
Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay for around the same price, and get much
more
functionality (though much harder to configure). I have a 1720 and it does
everything I
want and more.
Gerry
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM,
On Tue, July 1, 2008 2:28 pm, Gerry Hull said:
Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay for around the same price, and get
much
more
functionality (though much harder to configure). I have a 1720 and it
does
everything I
want and more.
What Cisco equipment would you recommend for 802.11N?
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gerry Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay ...
I thought with Cisco, the IOS (firmware) license wasn't
transferable, so even if you bought used hardware, you still had to
buy an IOS license from Cisco?
(One can violate the
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:25 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gerry Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay ...
I thought with Cisco, the IOS (firmware) license wasn't
transferable, so even if you bought used hardware, you still had to
buy
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:55 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought with Cisco, the IOS (firmware) license wasn't
transferable, so even if you bought used hardware, you still had to
buy an IOS license from Cisco?
Really?
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I'll spend more time learning how to use OpenVPN...
If you've got experience configuring other VPNs, you'll probably
find OpenVPN is really easy. I've got config files and some knowledge
I can share if anyone is
Netgear is now offering a wireless home router tailored for running open
source firmware (ala the Linksys WRT-L series). I've not really been
interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the
hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I
was
From the specs, it looks like mostly marketing hype to me. If it was really
designed for hacking it'd include more flash, ram, and pinouts for
expanding/hacking the hardware. Even if they were especially capped for
spec/cost, it's not hard to offer access to the I2C bus, very useful for
adding
I agree completely, I'm not discounting the power of marketing hype!
It's a huge boon having products in stores listed as Linux compatible,
even if fundamentally identical to the same product 6 inches away that costs
10% to 20% less. Hopefully they'll see that people are cracking them open
to
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