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What decent router costs $50? That blue soho router your thinking of is for your mom's house not a statewide installation.
by dfc 15y ago
What decent router costs $50? That blue soho router your thinking of is for your mom's house not a statewide installation.
- mikescar 15y agoA router that can handle 5-30 clients at current internet speed standards within a library setting. Yes, bigger installations could benefit from a $20k router, but the vast majority of these routers are a complete waste of money in WV outside of Charleston and Morgantown. Unless there is some big backbone being built that can service a mostly small-town and very mountainous state, spending $20k (each!) now so that your routing infrastructure within schools and libraries won't be too slow in a couple years is kinda crazy.
- wpietri 15y agoI run my office network off of a $50 router quite happily. But that's because I'm right there to take care of it. Earlier this year, for example, our network got a fever: http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2012/02/our-network-has-a-fever/ http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2012/02/our-network-has-a-... If I needed to cover 1,000 widely scattered locations for the next decade, there is no way I would try to do that with a bunch of consumer-grade stuff. Especially when trying to manage a bunch of existing T1s and a conversion to fiber.
- crazygringo 15y agoFor a library that only has four computers... I don't see the difference from my Mom's house.
- clarky07 15y agoThe difference is that the library doesn't have nearly as many devices as my house.