On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:45:18PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Currently MSY has Netgear WNDR3700 for A$99. It has a 5*gigE programmable switch, 11n wifi, 16MB/64MB, and excellent OpenWRT support. If those are things you want, IMO it's easily worth the price. If you don't want those things, >shrug<.
i get to this point and think "excellent, that'll do"
I concede the lack of open ADSL drivers is very annoying.
and then i get to this sticking point and realise, "no, it won't". without an ADSL driver, I'm still going to have to have an ADSL modem as well as a router, which defeats the entire purpose (of merging modem + router/firewall and wifi into one little unit) for me. and then i remember that 64MB RAM wont be enough to run an authoritative nameserver (which has to be on my gateway's IP address of 203.16.167.1) and it certainly wont be enough for squid.
It probably reduces electricity bill, though I doubt it'd be enough to offset the $99 vs. free over a (say) five-year life cycle.
yep. IMO unless you're running on off-grid power, the power savings aren't worth caring about. for anyone else though, it's a bit like whinging about petrol prices going up 2 or 5 or even 20 cents per litre - WGAF? even with an enormous rise of 20 cents that adds up to a completely underwhelming $8 on an average 40 litre tank. for the more common 2 cent fluctuations, it's 80 cents. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #14: sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support