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Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by nknighthb »

cflee wrote: post #20
nknighthb wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet if we could read their Chinese website, the copy would be perfect. Some manager who probably doesn't speak much English has tasked a random person on their staff who went to college in the US or UK with writing their English copy, without realizing the difference between "this person can communicate effectively 1:1 in English" and "this person can write formal English like a native speaker". In other words, a t…

Yes, the Chinese website ( http://cn.wrtnode.com/ ) is perfectly fine. (Chinese is my second language.) However, I would not immediately characterise the copy as written by a US/UK college grad though - it feels like it is written by someone who learnt English on the mainland. I don't really know why companies in various parts of East Asia don't hire/outsource to someone who actually is highly fluent in English to wr…

For my coworkers based in Taiwan who are somewhat fluent, they mostly don't recognize it, and really can't.

Their limitations are effectively hidden from them. Odd things still come out, but in informal contexts it's not worth correcting, and there's little opportunity for formal critique. (There's also the issue of "face" that complicates matters and drives me insane. It's easier with people who have spent a few years in the US, though.)

If there's no (near-)native speaker around to check, nobody's going to notice until it goes out to the world, and then there are a half billion people ready to jump on it.

If they recognized it, I don't think cost would be a factor. I could review/correct a site like this in an hour (or less). I might spend a day on the mini-manuals that come with some gadgets.

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by AJ007 »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #21
coin wrote: post #19

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.

Opened the web site, tried to scroll on my touchscreen, couldn't and immediately closed it. Then I read these comments and went back.

A lot of really bad ideas are being used on web sites now to make them look sophisticated. Ironic considering all of the simple to use tools developers now have to measure conversion rates and user engagement.

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by illumen »

uptown wrote: post #41
chrisBob wrote: post #3

I always find it hard to take things seriously when they are written in poor english. "Will coming soon" makes me worry about the quality of the rest of the project, maybe more than I should.

"I always find it hard to take things seriously when they are written in poor english." You realize English should be capitalized, right?

The words realise and capitalise should be spelt with an 's', not a 'z'.

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by ajb »

listic wrote: post #27
ajb wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I do, thanks.Hmm, let's see if I can give you the information without breaking a confidentiality agreement. Ah, here is a discussion on the openwrt mailing list: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2013-Augus... As you can see, they reported 90mb/s (they also quote 710, but I think that is the switch doing that). And that's on a mips74k.

I know it's made for routers, but most likely not for doing a lot in software. As you quote, it does hardware NAT. There's a reason they put that in.

There isn't a fundamental reason why the mips couldn't do the job, but running stock linux it's going to be thrashing its L1 cache, and it doesn't have an L2. Also, next time you play with one of those,check the hardware counters for how many instructions/sec it actually manages to process running flat out :-)

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by J_Darnley »

coin wrote: post #19

Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".

Even worse on a desktop. No scroll bars, no scrolling at all. That looks like it is because the idiot designer put "overflow: hidden" everywhere.

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by diminish »

noonespecial wrote: post #34

It feels like theres like a Lagrangian point out there in device space that these devices are converging on. It doesn't quite exist yet, but we are getting tantalizingly close. It networks like a Cisco, runs linux like a server, has GPIO like an Arduino, and costs as much as a Latte. Once it exists, its almost like computorium, becoming the center of nearly every maker project and then staying there because its so ch…

and it's sold in packs of 6 or 12 at your local discount store or walmart, right next to the pens.

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by Ecio78 »

illumen wrote: post #53
uptown wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I always find it hard to take things seriously when they are written in poor english." You realize English should be capitalized, right?

The words realise and capitalise should be spelt with an 's', not a 'z'.

AFAIK in British English, yes, in American English, no.

Re: WRTnode Opened for $25

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Post by hardolaf »

noonespecial wrote: post #28
samcrawford wrote: post #15

Great 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.)"

I never see Mbit in the embedded world when talking about RAM or Flash. I always see KB or MB, never Mbit.
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