On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:33 AM Jason Biel <jason@biel-tech.com> wrote:
Who's going to support that reflashed device? Certainly not the OEM vendor.
The oem ain't gonna support the resold device either. Yes, arguably, someone or someones doing a value add would have to be making money at it somehow. However, at least in my world, volunteers make the world round, still. It would kind of suck, I suppose, if someone unleashed a few hundred thousand reflashed routers like the TIP openwifi effort ( https://telecominfraproject.com/ ) seem to intent on doing... ... but if the OS is good enough to not need support, the impact is minimal.
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:30 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 9:07 AM NetEquity Sales <sales@netequity.com> wrote:
As someone who works within the "secondary market" for networking hardware, there is a ton of demand spilling over into the "pre-owned/vendor refurbished" market.
I just wish there were people putting in a value-add, like reflashing with better software, first.
Market prices on pre-owned equipment are rapidly increasing in step with increased demand and dwindling supply.
Market prices on 1G - 10G switching products, wireless infrastructure devices, etc have been rising precipitously. Even semi "legacy" stuff going back 2-3 generations (EOL/EOS) from current gen have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in price.
I've been involved in the hardware business for 20 years and the current market landscape is unprecedented.
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On Thu, May 19, 2022, 9:48 AM Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
I'd bet it's cheaper and easier to quantify new hardware than software. Labor was super expensive and now it is ready to implode.
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 9:27 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
As I've been saying for a while, instead of buying new kit, perhaps we could spend some time on getting better software onto our older kit? Getting stuff to multiplex better, be more reliable, last longer?
It isn't just me wanting to upgrade a billion+ routers with existing crappy software to openwrt, is it?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T21on7g1MqQZoK91epUdxLYFGdtyLRgBat0VXoC9...
-- FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
-- Jason
-- FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC