[Ham-Computers] Wanted: Non-working or cast-off Linksys B-series unit

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Group,

I'm looking for a Linksys B-series unit such as the 8-port Router (which I 
think would work best) but it doesn't have to work.  I need it for the cabinet 
and maybe the wall-wart.  Doesn't have to be free but does need to be cheaper 
than current new price.

After Hurricane Rita, my wife and I agreed that we needed to be able to stay 
in business under any circumstances where we and the house survived.  So we 
did several things, including adding a natural gas fired 45 KW Onan to the 
property.  In the aftermath of the Sunday morning parting blow from Hurricane Ike, 
we discovered a chink in our disaster plans.  Cable (and our Internet 
connection) went down or intermittent for a week.  Almost shut us down again.  Late in 
the week I bought an AirCard and a D-Link Router (last one in the city) for 
it and got us back up, as both Sprint and Cingular cell towers in the area 
survived.

However, mechanically the D-Link is poorly thought out, intended to stand up 
in a flimsy plastic foot (and fall over at every chance).  I want to 
transplant it into a B-series housing or cabinet so that it will stack with the Linksys 
cable modem and router and look halfway decent.  FWIW, I checked the Linksys 
catalog and their only equivalent device is mechanically worse than the 
D-link.  So I need one of the dark blue stackable B-series cabinets to do the 
transplant into.

As an aside, should anyone else be considering a similar problem, I'll add 
that in our case, AT&T DSL would have been by far the easiest secondary 
solution.  We already use AT&T as our telephone service provider and the Linksys cable 
modem we use is actually a Cable-DSL modem.  Unplug one and plug in the 
other.  Unfortunately, the cable and the phone lines share the same poles for at 
least half a mile south of the house.  And both services went down initially 
because of the fall of a single live oak.  The cell towers in the area are not 
physically close to the phone or cable lines and both Sprint and Cingular (AT&T) 
stayed up throughout the emergency.  Or to put it another way, when looking 
for backup solutions, avoid those that a single common incident could take out. 
 

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480


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