[tlug] Re: anyone used a OpenBlockS266

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

Edward Middleton wrote:

> I was taking a stroll round Akihabara last weekend and found these.  
> 
> http://openlab.plathome.co.jp/OpenBlockS266/index.html
> 
> They looked like the perfect home Linux server/router solution.  Has
> anyone used one of these.  The price seems rather excessive, but might
> be less hassle then trying to hack a LinkSys router into doing something
> similar.

Sweet. ^_^
And the OpenblockS Yellow seems to be available[1] for 2000YEN.
Even though it only has a 50Mhz PowerPC, 4MB Flash and 16MB of RAM,
it should be good enough to build a simple DSL router.
It so happens that my father would like to have a more reliable
replacement for the 486 machine currently doing the routing work and
2000YEN is even less than a cheap ADSL/NAT-router would cost over here
in germany (15EUR vs. 40 EUR).  I know someone who will be in Japan in
the next week or so and could probably buy one for me.

Did I miss something?
Looks to good to be true. :-)

[1] According to http://online.plathome.co.jp/products/openblocks/,
    right at the bottom of the page.

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