Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
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Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#2Wow, pretty amazing. I'm not sure of a better advertisement for open source router software than this sort of bonehead move.
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#3I'm thankful Jeff Atwood posted another article about the commodity router + open source firmware one-two punch [1]. I finally took the plunge and installed Tomato (Toastman [2]) and have been thrilled with the features, but mostly excited about the fact I get to tinker with another device :) It is empowering to know that I can circumvent overarching and onerous policies such as this...innovation...by Cisco.
[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-st...
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#4The author seemed to gloss over the part that really stuck out to me: "...we may keep track of certain information ... e.g Internet history ..."
So the router is tracking your online activity and they will terminate it if they find you've been using it to watch porn or content not deemed legal. I'm guessing not many people from Hacker News will be able to do much with their routers if they start enforcing this.
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#5I suppose that Cisco's experience collaborating with the secret police of various nations has seeped into it's corporate culture.
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#6I'm thankful Jeff Atwood posted another article about the commodity router + open source firmware one-two punch [1]. I finally took the plunge and installed Tomato (Toastman [2]) and have been thrilled with the features, but mostly excited about the fact I get to tinker with another device :) It is empowering to know that I can circumvent overarching and onerous policies such as this...innovation...by Cisco. [1]: htt…
The N16 is a good piece of hardware. I've been running one with DD-WRT for a while.
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#7I'm thankful Jeff Atwood posted another article about the commodity router + open source firmware one-two punch [1]. I finally took the plunge and installed Tomato (Toastman [2]) and have been thrilled with the features, but mostly excited about the fact I get to tinker with another device :) It is empowering to know that I can circumvent overarching and onerous policies such as this...innovation...by Cisco. [1]: htt…
Don't miss the previous discussion of Jeff's post here on Hacker News for more details and alternatives:
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#8The author seemed to gloss over the part that really stuck out to me: "...we may keep track of certain information ... e.g Internet history ..." So the router is tracking your online activity and they will terminate it if they find you've been using it to watch porn or content not deemed legal. I'm guessing not many people from Hacker News will be able to do much with their routers if they start enforcing this.
Actually, they did another article that zeroed in on precisely this.
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#9I'm thankful Jeff Atwood posted another article about the commodity router + open source firmware one-two punch [1]. I finally took the plunge and installed Tomato (Toastman [2]) and have been thrilled with the features, but mostly excited about the fact I get to tinker with another device :) It is empowering to know that I can circumvent overarching and onerous policies such as this...innovation...by Cisco. [1]: htt…
Don't miss the previous discussion of Jeff's post here on Hacker News for more details and alternatives: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127393
I did indeed follow both the discussion here and the comments on his post closely! I wasted/spent a good 6+ hours reading about all kinds of router features that I had didn't know existed, or never even thought possible (VLANs, VPN, NFS, CIFS, Captive Portal, router CPU overclocking, etc). Some versions of Tomato (Shibby's firmware [1] in particular) allow the router to act as a BitTorrent client! I'm sure it's old news to some, but for anyone on the fence about trying new firmware on their routers - take the plunge.
Re: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
#10I'm thankful Jeff Atwood posted another article about the commodity router + open source firmware one-two punch [1]. I finally took the plunge and installed Tomato (Toastman [2]) and have been thrilled with the features, but mostly excited about the fact I get to tinker with another device :) It is empowering to know that I can circumvent overarching and onerous policies such as this...innovation...by Cisco. [1]: htt…
The N16 is a good piece of hardware. I've been running one with DD-WRT for a while.
Same here. The N16 with DD-WRT is an awesome setup. However, I just moved and got FiOS and have a ticket in to avoid using their crappy router/modem you are forced to use.
Also, if you are in the market for an upgrade, my friend showed me the new Asus RT-N66u. I likey n16 but the new one has a faster CPU and more RAM.