fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
| No Thanks....
My kurobox (linkstation minus HD) was something like $175 shipped. It's got a 250GB IDE hard drive (leftover from project).
Runs mldonkey, headless, and has a low power consumption (19 watts peak - »www.kurobox.com/mwiki/index.php/···box_Wiki ). Not only does it do bittorrent, it also does 3 or 4 other p2p network applications.
I don't want my router running that garbage...thats why it sits in my DMZ on a machine i don't care about 
It also does my mrtg graphs, router logs, and several other things. It COULD be a WAP, provided i added a USB WiFi dongle - but i leave that up to the WRT54GL. |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
| I love Asus products BUT
They didn't have to do this. They need to make a version of this with HD optional. I'm sure thats where most of the price is coming from. I have the WL500g and that thing rocks, just mad they never kept up with the firmware.
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
 ·T-Mobile US
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Re: No Thanks....
said by fcisler  :My kurobox (linkstation minus HD) was something like $175 shipped. It's got a 250GB IDE hard drive (leftover from project). Runs mldonkey, headless, and has a low power consumption (19 watts peak - » www.kurobox.com/mwiki/index.php/···box_Wiki ). Not only does it do bittorrent, it also does 3 or 4 other p2p network applications. I don't want my router running that garbage...thats why it sits in my DMZ on a machine i don't care about It also does my mrtg graphs, router logs, and several other things. It COULD be a WAP, provided i added a USB WiFi dongle - but i leave that up to the WRT54GL. For that money I rather suggest you to buy one of the ReadyNAS units: »www.infrant.com/ |
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MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY
clubs:   | reply to inteller
Re: I love Asus products BUT
they make most of the profit on hd.
that sucker cost $500, but comes w/ 160gig hd
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
| yeah, I'd have a 160G drive filled in a week or two.
They just need the ability for the device to address a NAS device. The 24/7 download capability is cool, just dont limit the storage.
it isn't worth $500, the HD markup is ridiculous, you can get 160G hard drives for cheap. You shouldn't have to pay for an "integration premium"
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bigfitch
Premium
join:2005-06-01
Murrayville, IL
clubs: | 160 gigs and router :/ Throw in an option for a with or without hardrive and another few usb ports for adding on more adn drop the price a bunch and people will buy it. |
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | reply to kamm
Re: No Thanks....
ferricOxide has one (infrant)....i was going to get one....until i realized that the throughput was drastically SLOW. For the same money i build myself a NAS with a 3ware card, and get insane speed. |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
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I use a modified Xbox running debian as a LAMP server with a 250 GB HD, Torrentflux 2.1, and SAMBA.
It works essentially the same way as this product. It's incredible for using just as a SOHO server, and for use as a set-and-forget BT/P2P download box.  |
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JM222222
@128.118.x.x
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I agree. I have both a kurobox and a modded xbox. The kurobox runs torrentflux like a dream as well as SABnzbd for newsgroup binaries. I don't really care about otehr p2p, but its nice to know its there if I need it. I thought about using the xbox for this function as someone commented elsewhere, but the kurobox consumes something like only 17 watts of power, and is basically silent and cool running. The xbox is a power hog, is loud and hot as hell, and plus I am already using it (xbmc) to watch the videos i download to the kurobox share, plus play the occasional game. I didn't want to have to interrupt my downloads if I wanted to play splinter cell or something. |
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VikingStorm
join:2002-06-25
Omaha, NE | Where is all this talk about $500 from?
A quick search on froogle seems to suggest the price will be closer to $250-300 when in stock. |
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ozzieyyyy
@edu.au | Australian $
Note that is 500 Australia $'s |
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Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN | reply to inteller
Re: I love Asus products BUT
Full in a week or two?
haha I bought a dlink NAS and thought "I'll have this full in an hour". Well no, I slipped in a 400gig drive and the performance was so piss poor I gave up after a couple iso's. |
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