{"id":4449,"date":"2008-06-30T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/netgear-dumps-trash-with-open-source\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T21:25:32","slug":"netgear-dumps-trash-with-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/netgear-dumps-trash-with-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Netgear dumps trash with Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDana Blankenhorn is excited about Netgear&#8217;s announcement that it&#8217;s fully supporting a router intended to run open source software, but he&#8217;s off on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/open-source\/?p=2612\">the relevance of the hardware:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MyOpenRouter offers developers a comprehensive user guide, applications forums and downloads. Best of all this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a stinky would-not-sell-otherwise router. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got an internal diversity antenna to improve performance, and supports WPS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, that&#8217;s not at all impressive.Every Wi-Fi router built in the last three years supports diversity and WPS, but the relevant ones also support 802.11n. This is simply an obsolete b\/g router that Netgear is dumping, probably to reduce inventory. Wake me up when you see an open source router supporting 802.11n, I&#8217;ll buy one in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/wifi\" rel=\"tag\">wifi<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Blankenhorn is excited about Netgear&#8217;s announcement that it&#8217;s fully supporting a router intended to run open source software, but he&#8217;s off on the relevance of the hardware: MyOpenRouter offers developers a comprehensive user guide, applications forums and downloads. Best of all this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a stinky would-not-sell-otherwise router. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got an internal diversity antenna to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/netgear-dumps-trash-with-open-source\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netgear dumps trash with Open Source&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,24],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-networks","category-wireless","tag-wifi-opensource"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-19L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}