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Btw anyone ever measured that gamer shaped wifi routers with fancy remote apps sell better? I was going to buy into Google's Wifi solution until I realized you
by sly010 9y ago
Btw anyone ever measured that gamer shaped wifi routers with fancy remote apps sell better? I was going to buy into Google's Wifi solution until I realized you manage it with an App. Is that really what customers want or is it just the marketers brainfart?
- jrimbault 9y agoAren't those apps just a replacement for people who can't (or don't know how to) login into and manage their router ?
- narrowrail 9y agoTyping in raw IPs in the URL bar is not something many laypeople are comfortable with exactly. Private LAN addresses seem odd if you navigate the web with a search engine.
- jrimbault 9y agoThat's what I mean yeah.
- cptn_brittish 9y agoOn the other hand some ruters use url's like http://routerlogin.net http://routerlogin.net and from my perspective that seems dodgy since that could mean all the routers are centrally configured somehow.
- ghostly_s 9y agoApple's management app for the Airport line is one of the few great features of that product. So much more convenient than a web interface. Of course I don't trust anyone else to implement something half as good as what they did.
- bubblethink 9y agoGoogle's wifi solution looks interesting. I don't know how friendly they are to tinkering and third party firmware, but there doesn't seem to be a big community around it. In theory, it should be possible since they are based on chromium OS.