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Web Server Packed into RJ45 Connector
VinceTronics writes "Electronic Design magazine has a review (.pdf) of the XPort by Lantronix, a product that packs an entire web server into the volume of an RJ45 connector! This includes an 80186 controller, an OS, the TCP/IP stack, a 10/100 Ethernet transceiver, and the LAN interface magnetics. Downside is that the serial interface to the controller tops out at 300 kbps, but for $33 (in 10K quantities) it's a cool, easy way to net-enable just about anything."
And just in case... in case... http://download.aaltonen.us/17440.pdf
...but I *really* don't think I'll need a net enabled fridge. It's not that hard to go downstairs and check what I need. Or even check when I get home. Or even ring my girlfriend and ask her.
Why are we trying to get everything on the 'net. A lightswitch. Wow I could switch that on from my desk at work.
Sorry, I just find it silly.
30-50 bucks?
$33 for 10K of these birds, hell we could give every man woman and child on the planet one of these for under 20 million.
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the specs says its using Windows. Sience this is an ovious lie I think this is just a scam.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Imagine how easy it would be to hide one of these on a corporate network? Backdoor to anything.
"Times may change, but standards must remain the same." - George Carlin.
Doesn't look like there's a jack to plug it in, so I'm assuming that the thing runs off one of the lines in the ethernet cable, something like the way a phone is powered. Not knowing enough about some of the voltages and levels on that cable, is this a possibility, meaning that no dedicated "externa;" pwer supply is needed?