[186579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband Router Comparisons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Thu Dec 24 08:58:59 2015
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From: Rob Seastrom <rs-lists@seastrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <C748156E-8FD9-4338-B951-9C7FD6A2F0E2@hathcock.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 08:58:55 -0500
To: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:38 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> That's a good troubleshooting technique when the customer is =
cooperative and technically competent.
... and has ethernet on anything in the house, which is increasingly a =
bad thing to rely on. Got an iPad, a smart phone, and a MacBook Air =
(any revision)? Two of the three have substantially no support for =
hardwired Ethernet. The third requires an external USB adaptor. "Go =
out and buy this $24 gizmo so we can confirm that your $29 =
router/wireless device is indeed crap" is a hard thing to get most =
people to do.
-r