Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".
It's just as obnoxious to try scroll through on desktop.
WRTnode Opened for $25
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Re: WRTnode Opened for $25
#22Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively! But a few niggles: - Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst that may be the norm for buying components, I'd argue most people familiar with OpenWrt and the Raspberry-Pi generation are going to miss this detail and think "Oh wow, 512MB RAM and 128MB flash!", when in fact it's 1/8th of that. - There's some mention of a st…
I once saw an SD card sold as "8gb" and thought it terribly expensive for that much capacity.
Re: WRTnode Opened for $25
#23Could I have this please with 802.11ac WiFi, 5GHz, preferrably supporting a 4x4 MIMO setup. I would love to have an open access point for my network. I like to have more than 300Mbps and to avoid the 2.4GHz network though even more. I understand this owuld be more expensive, but would be willing to pay a higher price.
I don't think networking is the market of this thing, despite the name. In fact, it could probably use a different name.
It's a mips24k; I doubt it can do software networking at the 300mb speed the wifi runs at.
Re: WRTnode Opened for $25
#24Could I have this please with 802.11ac WiFi, 5GHz, preferrably supporting a 4x4 MIMO setup. I would love to have an open access point for my network. I like to have more than 300Mbps and to avoid the 2.4GHz network though even more. I understand this owuld be more expensive, but would be willing to pay a higher price.
Expensive enough to largely be impractical.
From what I've seen, open source development that involves hardware typically involves reverse engineering specifications and/or emulation. Neither is practical for state-of-the-art.
Not to mention, MIMO is just a "wee" bit tougher than simpler schemes.
Re: WRTnode Opened for $25
#25Previous submission that sank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181321 .
This proves one thing: you need to keep trying.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for pointing out, we corrected it. :)
If I can share a suggestion: the phrase "Born to be proud" comes off as a bit arrogant and doesn't sound natural to a native English speaker. If you're proud of the product, or you're trying to convey the idea that it was created with good intentions, some different wording might get your point across better. Something like "a better open platform" or "born to be open" [even though that also doesn't sound natural eit…
..."Born to be proud" [...] doesn't sound natural to a native English speaker...
It also has echoes of classic 1970s rock, which doesn't help (born to be wild, born to run).
Re: WRTnode Opened for $25
#27Could I have this please with 802.11ac WiFi, 5GHz, preferrably supporting a 4x4 MIMO setup. I would love to have an open access point for my network. I like to have more than 300Mbps and to avoid the 2.4GHz network though even more. I understand this owuld be more expensive, but would be willing to pay a higher price.
I don't think networking is the market of this thing, despite the name. In fact, it could probably use a different name. It's a mips24k; I doubt it can do software networking at the 300mb speed the wifi runs at.
Do you have an idea how much of bandwidth a MIPS cpu like that can push?
The chip is actually made for routers: it has 802.11n "MAC/BBP", 5-port 10/100 switch, etc. http://www.anz.ru/files/mediatek/MT7620_Datasheet.pdf I wonder how "Hardware NAT with IPv6 and 2 Gbps wired speed" works if the switch is only 100 Mbits...
I guess if what you want out of this is really a router, you are supposed to either build the rest of the hardware yourself or wait for yourself, or wait for the "motherboard" module for this.
Re: WRTnode Opened for $25
#28Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively! But a few niggles: - Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst that may be the norm for buying components, I'd argue most people familiar with OpenWrt and the Raspberry-Pi generation are going to miss this detail and think "Oh wow, 512MB RAM and 128MB flash!", when in fact it's 1/8th of that. - There's some mention of a st…
The Mbit thing is quite common in the embedded world. When I saw this my first thought was "oh wow, twice the specs of my current favorite OpenWRT hack platform (the TL-703N) at about the same price and with gpio exposed. Awesome.)"
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#29Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".
"Designers" trying to show off and that dont understand anything about basic usability.
To the "designers" :
Next time do a simple web page without stupid scrolling hacks,for god sake.I'm sick of it ,really. Dont mess up with basic usability just because it looks good on your Macintosh.I guess you didnt even bother testing on mobile.
Sorry for that rant,but we are in 2014,and I cant take more of that stuff.
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#30An excellent price point with wifi included.