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…and the prices! He is “happy” because using those spare parts he can spend only 1300$ for a wireless router.
by giuliomagnifico 4y ago
…and the prices! He is “happy” because using those spare parts he can spend only 1300$ for a wireless router.
- jeffbee 4y agoIt seemed reasonable at the time. I briefly used a DEC Multia with two Aironet LM4500 PCMCIA wireless cards as a point-to-point backhaul and access point. That was a lot of money for hardware but the cable company wanted tens of thousands of dollars to bring coax a very short distance to the site, and ADSL in those days was still something you could expect to deliver just 128kbps upstream under ideal conditions.
- dtaht 4y agoWe used to use old DEC alphas as firewalls figuring the arch was so obscure as to not worry about binary attacks.