The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
Posted Oct 10, 2015 13:02 UTC (Sat) by Thue (guest, #14277)Parent article: The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
That router costs $230. You can buy laptops cheaper than that. I like quality hardware which is built to last, but this seems move overdesigned (and overpriced) than pure quality.
Posted Oct 10, 2015 13:32 UTC (Sat)
by rvfh (guest, #31018)
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Posted Oct 10, 2015 14:37 UTC (Sat)
by martin.langhoff (guest, #61417)
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There's a reason most of the industry doesn't do it. It costs a lot to take the long road... and customers don't care whether you took shortcuts instead.
Do you care? Buy it. It's the only answer that matters. If the market shows no interest, who'll stick his/her neck out to dtrt next time?
Posted Oct 10, 2015 14:41 UTC (Sat)
by diegor (subscriber, #1967)
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It's true that you can find equivalent hardware for 150$ It's quite expensive, and you can find similar hardware at better price. But not at very much better price. And you can also find equivalent hardware at 300$. And it does'nt have open firmware.
So, at the end the price is ok, if you need a powerful wifi-router.
Posted Oct 10, 2015 15:08 UTC (Sat)
by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)
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Posted Oct 12, 2015 17:40 UTC (Mon)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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My problem is I'd like to get one and stick a raid array on it - an enclosure for the disks costs as much as a disk, if not more :-( A 3TB Red costs £100, a four disk enclosure about £300 :-(
Cheers,
Posted Oct 10, 2015 16:17 UTC (Sat)
by niner (subscriber, #26151)
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Posted Oct 10, 2015 16:24 UTC (Sat)
by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
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Posted Oct 10, 2015 16:32 UTC (Sat)
by ledow (guest, #11753)
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And it does way more than a simple router ever would.
If you want something for a normal home, go buy the cheapest Linksys.
If you want something capable of actually maximising the connection, acting at gigabit speeds on local ports (just because it's a gigabit port does not mean you get transfer rates of 1Gb/s across it when the rest are busy), proper Qos, VoIP, VPN, etc. all at the same time, then you can easily pay several hundred dollars without even blinking.
This isn't replacing grandma's wifi connection. It's replacing business and power-user devices that do a lot more and act as the firewall to corporate networks etc.
Posted Oct 12, 2015 13:45 UTC (Mon)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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Posted Oct 12, 2015 14:43 UTC (Mon)
by TD-Linux (guest, #92557)
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Posted Oct 13, 2015 18:14 UTC (Tue)
by pak9rabid (guest, #37821)
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Posted Oct 14, 2015 4:38 UTC (Wed)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
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http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Embedded_....
It's quite a bit more freedom-respecting (and customer-respecting!) than Linksys' bait-and-switch announcement here.
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
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The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router
The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router