On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:08:59AM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
If the replacement is about £100, presumably there's some resale value in the old one on eBay or elsewhere which might reduce the payback time?
There isn't much value in the kit as it's currently an old netgear dg834 with 3rd party firmware along with a couple of routers running openwrt, just I have 3 routers doing the work of 1 so I'd keep some of it as spare kit in case of hardware failure on the new.
Looking on ebay I'd get about £20 for the WRT54GL, a tenner for the Asus wl-500g and about 99p for the dg834.
The main benefits of upgrading this gear would be I could have 1 box and save a small amount of power and then get gigabit networking internally. The other reason I'm not upgrading yet is our exchange it supposed to get FTTC some time in the next year so I don't want to buy the "wrong" thing if circumstances change. As we are currently on the far end of a long bit of wet string buying a new router won't give us any more performance from our dsl line either.
Adam