[geeks] Cheap wireless APs

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 21, 2009, at 15:30 , Lionel Peterson wrote:


> Very small market for consumer access points, I have an old Motorola  
> 802.11b/g AP that runs great, but has been off the market for years...

If it were market size, seems they would just sell the exact same unit  
with a production cripple/flag change to make it one or the other,  
removing most worries about volume with any competent manufacturer.

It's 2009: this is a solved problem.

Therefore, it seems to me it must be one of those things they do  
because they can, not because of some technical reason.

What is interesting is that small "router" boards are starting to get  
so cheap you have to start considering them even for really small  
projects.  A little more work, but one day someone is going to say  
"Ah... business opportunity..."

I keep hoping that someone besides Linksys and friends will get into  
the market and make something that doesn't suck and whose feature set  
and support make sense.

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com