RE: Wireless Router

["Georgina Joyce" <gena-j@bulldoghome.com>]

Hi

Of course, there's the noise issue if you don't have a cupboard to hide the machine and considerably cheaper to run.

Gena

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From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Wireless Router


personally I don't want to use a full-fledged computer as a 
router...in a router I want something that's just going to run without 
any issues, and anyway a computer is overkill.  I like something thats 
a small imbedded system with just enough flash/ram to be a router.
On 
Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 01:48:26PM -0400, ace wrote:
> How come people don't just use their Linux box as the router and a wireless
> switch to provide the wireless?  I don't have a lot of experience in this
> area so let me know if I am completely off.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:48 AM
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> Subject: Re: Wireless Router
> 
> I like the wrt54gl (I think that's what it's called, the current one 
> that runs linux not the current one that runs vxworks)
> 
> personally quite happy with my Cisco 2514 though...
> On Fri, Jun 08, 
> 2007 at 08:05:14AM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> > This is slightly off topic, but I am looking for opinions on which
> > wireless router to purchase.
> > 
> > 
> > Steve Dawes
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-- 
> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> > should use Linux over BSD?
>
> No.  That's it.  The cool name, that is.  We worked very hard on
> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> to say "OS/2? Hah.  I've got Linux.  What a cool name".  386BSD made the
> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> technical.
	-- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux

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