= Сообщение: 705 из 7442 ============================================== IPV6 = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 15 May 14 11:08:28 Кому : Markus Reschke 15 May 14 11:08:28 Тема : Comcast & IPv6 FGHI : area://IPV6?msgid=2:280/5555+5374869b На : area://IPV6?msgid=2:240/1661+536a924e = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== Ответ: area://IPV6?msgid=2:240/1661+536a9250 ============================================================================== Hello Markus,
On Wednesday May 14 2014 17:50, you wrote to me:
MvdV>> Arghh! That is misleading... :-(
MR> It's not just that router. D-Link's IPv6 strategy was misleading MR> totally. They gave users the impression that they will add IPv6 to the MR> more expensive routers but that never happened. Instead they sold new MR> models (slightly upgraded hardware) which drove some users away from MR> D-Link.
But only "some". I guess they figured they can make more profit by selling new hardware than by providing customers with free firmware updates. And they get away with it because IPv6 is not yet a hot issue. It is only a small minority of their custonmers who know what it is all about and as long as it works, who cares...
They would not get away with it if it was something more visible, like delivering only half the advertised speed, but missing IPv6? Only a handful of nerds care...
MR>>> I had the older model and sold it because of that.
MvdV>> At least you got some money back for it.
MR> Yep, and I sold nearly all D-Link stuff. Also had some "professional" MR> APs and a lot of WLAN problems. Debugging pointed to a very poor MR> firmware and bad choice of default values. Sorry, but selling MR> semi-professional stuff with so much issues is a show stopper. The APs MR> were about 150 Euros with a warranty of 11 years.
11 years? Warranties that long always make me suspicious. How can they guarantee the company still exista at all 11 years from now?
MR> Guess what, D-Link dropped the firmware support for those APs quite MR> soon. So I replaced all D-Link stuff with TP-Link running OpenWRT. MR> Much more control and features, and a reliable WLAN.
Good choice I'd say.
MR> The best current solutions for IPv6 are TP-Link with OpenWRT or some MR> Mini-PCs like from PC Engines running OpenWRT or pfSense. There are MR> some new SOHO routers with dual core ARMs around 1GHz on the market MR> now, but I would wait until they are supported by OpenWRT. They're MR> also quite expensive at the moment. I think that will change soon MR> because all chipset vendors are moving to dual/quadcore ARMs. So will MR> the router vendors. The last generation was a 560/680MHz CPU, 128MB MR> RAM and 8-128MB flash. The new one is a dual core ARM, 1GHz, 256MB RAM MR> and 128MB flash. That's ideal for running also some extra tasks like MR> asterisk or maybe husky ;-)
I think I will stick with my good old faithful WRT54GL with OpenWrt a bit longer and wait for the prices of the new hardware to drop some more... ;-)
