WOW! Just wow! My jaw is slack. Back in art school I saw Industrial Design stuff like this. It's the ultimate "form pretends to follow function but doesn't". Okay. Look at that thing with all the coax cables coming into it from different directions. Now think about how stiff coax is. Then consider the space this thing would have to take up on a desk or wall. After that consider what other equipment would have to be in the same room as this device by simple definition of what it is.
That thing is a rat's nest of cable at least three feet across that cannot be reliably set on top of or attached to almost anything.
There is a good reason that almost all computers and peripherals have all their cords coming out one side. Yes in the short term it can be more confusing, but it is an order of magnitude more compact, and you will actually be able to put it on a desk or stack it or something.
This is like throwing an octopus into someone's office.
there appear to be two kinds. the antenna one isn't that bad except they managed to design it so that it may only be hung on a wall. Still kind of silly. I do like the list of features too, and theres likely nothing wrong with their engineering. The industrial design guy who did the box shape needs to seriously needs to be slapped up a bit though. Even for just the wireless version, removing that much utility from a device merely to make it look more net like is IMHO pretty dumb though.
you're mistaken, they are not the cable "inputs", they are the Antennae input/output.
they are orientated that way to make it as omni directional as possible, this is a MESH router remember? so it has to be able to receive and send signals to the next nodes, wherever they are.
if you go to the website and look at the full size picture the antennas are both black and far deeper set than the ones with the white protuberances. So much more deeply set in fact that I cannot see how the internals of the relative devices could be the same. One the origional site there are also two pictures of antennaless boxes that do not have the holes on the pictured side necessary to plug in any of the aforementioned things. This implies there are at least three versions. Mesh network wireless, mesh network coax, and something else entirely.
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WOW! Just wow! My jaw is slack. Back in art school I saw Industrial Design stuff like this. It's the ultimate "form pretends to follow function but doesn't".
Okay. Look at that thing with all the coax cables coming into it from different directions.
Now think about how stiff coax is.
Then consider the space this thing would have to take up on a desk or wall.
After that consider what other equipment would have to be in the same room as this device by simple definition of what it is.
That thing is a rat's nest of cable at least three feet across that cannot be reliably set on top of or attached to almost anything.
There is a good reason that almost all computers and peripherals have all their cords coming out one side. Yes in the short term it can be more confusing, but it is an order of magnitude more compact, and you will actually be able to put it on a desk or stack it or something.
This is like throwing an octopus into someone's office.
That isn't coax, they are antenna.
Nice little set up. Essentially, a mini-pc with 4 hi-power wifi cards in a ruggedized case with mesh networking software.
there appear to be two kinds. the antenna one isn't that bad except they managed to design it so that it may only be hung on a wall. Still kind of silly.
I do like the list of features too, and theres likely nothing wrong with their engineering. The industrial design guy who did the box shape needs to seriously needs to be slapped up a bit though. Even for just the wireless version, removing that much utility from a device merely to make it look more net like is IMHO pretty dumb though.
you're mistaken, they are not the cable "inputs", they are the Antennae input/output.
they are orientated that way to make it as omni directional as possible, this is a MESH router remember?
so it has to be able to receive and send signals to the next nodes, wherever they are.
if you go to the website and look at the full size picture the antennas are both black and far deeper set than the ones with the white protuberances. So much more deeply set in fact that I cannot see how the internals of the relative devices could be the same. One the origional site there are also two pictures of antennaless boxes that do not have the holes on the pictured side necessary to plug in any of the aforementioned things. This implies there are at least three versions. Mesh network wireless, mesh network coax, and something else entirely.