Bright Box on eBay, currently @ £6.07... ending tomorrow...

Wow. I thought these things sold for MUCH more. Some dude has a Bright Box (new) on eBay with a current bid of £6.07, with only 12 hours left... AND NO RESERVE.

Should I buy it? Would you? Cheap enough for research:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orange-Bright-Box-wireless...

There's still 12 hours to go and most bids on eBay are made in final few secs.

And others are selling at £60 or more.

And the last one sold at £27 + postage.

You takes yer choice!

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

There's still 12 hours to go and most bids on eBay are made in final few secs.

And others are selling at £60 or more.

And the last one sold at £27 + postage.

You takes yer choice!

Maybe I won't then .

Cheers me dears!

Nice buy @ £32!

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Nice buy @ £32!

You can pick up a linksys WAG54GS for £5 delivered on eBay, a far superior bit of kit!

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In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Nice buy @ £32!

You can pick up a linksys WAG54GS for £5 delivered on eBay, a far superior bit of kit!

How can you possibly prove that it is superior, when the Bright Box has been out less than one month, and very little is known about the inner mechanisms yet? I am not doubting that the WAG54GS is a great router, but there's simply not enough evidence yet to say that the Bright Box is inferior, *especially* as it's only on firmware version 1.0, and uses a MUCH faster cpu (320Mhz vs WAG54GS @ 166Mhz) and the WAG54GS has 16Mb of SDRAM, whereas the Bright Box has 64Mb DDR RAM.

The Bright Box has far greater potential I think. Give it a chance, it's NEW.

Edited by glossywhite (Tue 21-Feb-12 20:37:08)

Easy - it's made by Cisco, and it can run OpenWrt.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Easy - it's made by Cisco, and it can run OpenWrt.

And Cisco have never made a bad product? Who says the Bright Box won't run OpenWRT in time? It has superior hardware *AND* USB host mode, 300Mbps Wireless N. This is pure speculation, and I think a generous spoonful of Cisco apologist bias has been applied to the debate, which nullifies any weight you could have given to your argument.

I'm staying neutral on this, until a few months down the line, when the hardware has been properly reverse engineered. I don't see anyone here, me included, compiling firmware for the Bright Box, so we're not in a position to comment.

Edited by glossywhite (Tue 21-Feb-12 20:42:44)

And it's cheaper.

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And it's cheaper.

That's not a reason, lol. Cheaper != better.

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And it's cheaper.

That's not a reason, lol. Cheaper != better.

It is a deciding factor if you're on a budget. That one you sold for £25, you could of bought 5 Ciscos meaning the Cisco is 5 times better.

My linksys WAG54GS (which now resides at a friends house) would run rings round the brightbox. The web config is easy to navigate and it does exactly what you tell it to. If you set up port forwarding, it forwards ports. The wireless is highly stable with very low latency.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Orange or BT supplied equipment.

If it's not the orange brightbox and it's useless DHCP, or their older version, which disregards if you turn wireless pairing off and still requires you to press the button, it's the BT home hub which blocks pings and doesn't forward ports correctly.

Edited by Pipexer (Tue 21-Feb-12 21:01:34)

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In reply to a post by glossywhite:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

And it's cheaper.

That's not a reason, lol. Cheaper != better.

It is a deciding factor if you're on a budget. That one you sold for £25, you could of bought 5 Ciscos meaning the Cisco is 5 times better.

Are five Asda value Cola bottles @ 20p each, "better" than ONE Coca Cola bottle @ £1?

haha.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

My linksys WAG54GS (which now resides at a friends house) would run rings round the brightbox. The web config is easy to navigate and it does exactly what you tell it to. If you set up port forwarding, it forwards ports. The wireless is highly stable with very low latency.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Orange or BT supplied equipment.

If it's not the orange brightbox and it's useless DHCP, or their older version, which disregards if you turn wireless pairing off and still requires you to press the button, it's the BT home hub which blocks pings and doesn't forward ports correctly.

You take issue with the way that the Bright Box deals with DHCP; fair enough. That doesn't make it bad *overall*. That's plainly ridiculous, and your points are reducing themselves into absurdity. It's still brand new, and a brand new firmware WILL contain more bugs than a mature one. Your point re. DHCP is perhaps a valid one, but your speculation that the Bright Box is in some way worse, is unprovable. Too many variables and besides... who actually cares?

Fanboyism doesn't make sense. It never has, it never will, it never COULD.

Edited by glossywhite (Tue 21-Feb-12 21:14:29)

Mate, if I'm thirsty and I've only got 20p then I'll go for the Asda Cola.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Mate, if I'm thirsty and I've only got 20p then I'll go for the Asda Cola.

Okay, go for the Asda cola

Cool.

As thread was going nowhere other than an argument