[ale] New Linksys router on its way

[Jim Kinney]

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.
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