[TriLUG] Get a router now! - Re: newbie needs help with IP setup, part 2: static IP?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, James Tuttle wrote:

> I'm embarrassed to admit I've never soldered.  Maybe I'll look into
> that, though.

it's more complicated than I thought. I'd assumed the header 
was already on the pcb and all you had to do was push the SD 
card on. I know that every 0.1c counts on commodity hardware 
and that unused header pads don't have the headers 
installed. Still I'd be happy to pay another $10 for a 
Buffalo with a slot for the SD card. This would kill the 
unit as the cheapest WAP on the block though. However you do 
get a machine with 1G memory.

I notice that ebay sells Buffalos with 1G SD cards and 
DD-WRT for $129. The price now is comparable to a WRT-54L 
but you have 1G instead of 25M (or whatever). Unless you 
were mass producing modified Buffalos, I expect the amount 
of time you'd spend figuring out how to modify a single 
Buffalo would be a lot more than the extra cost of buying an 
already modified unit. I'm sure Tom Billman would have no 
trouble with it. This would make a good saturday morning 
workshop. I don't quite know what I'd do with 1G on a WAP 
though.

Joe

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