On 6 May 2004, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 05/05 11:32 , steve ulrich wrote:
> > > > http://meshcube.org/english/specs.html
> <snip>
> > > $200 for a kit and $240 assembled? No thanks.
> > 
> > well you can blame part of that on a strong euro. ;-)
> > 
> > the balance of that doesn't seem too horribly out of whack.   if you
> > consider that a wrt54g only has a single radio in it, doesn't support
> > PoE and doesn't have quite the same level of horsepower with a street
> > price of roughly $100-120.  $200 doesn't seem too bad. 
> 
> mostly, I was looking at it from the standpoint of versatility. No, it's
not
> a direct replacement for your off-the-BestBuy-shelf  AP; but if for some
> reason you need more versatility; the USB and *multiple* mini-PCI
interfaces
> offer a lot. You can add on SCSI cards, VGA cards, crypto accellerators,
> keyboards, more Ethernet interfaces... you name it.
> 
> I might not have a need for a small, solid-state AP with a keyboard
> interface and a VGA display; but I'll bet you *somebody* does, and they
> might be willing to spend a few bucks extra to get it. :)

It's got twice the cpu power, RAM, and flash of a WRT54GS, and twice the
radios, and it's smaller than two WRT54GSs.  Pricewise it's close to the
how much two WRT54GSs would cost.  It looks like it competes more closely
with the Soekris gear (but on a MIPS vs. x86 platform).


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