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From: "Chet Harvey" <chet at pittech dot com> > They take the old PC133 memory. IMHO customers like to see an "appliance" > rather > than a desktop as their firewall so the extra $50 is worth it. I found > customers > were skeptical when we would bring in anything but an appliance. Perception is %110 of our business. (Shows in many decisions) The %90 we do to make it work is not important. :-) Now those cases are nice, and I am still looking for other options, but I have a hard time paying more for less hardware. As a comparison, here is some stuff from a wholesaler who happens to be local to me. (And yet I still have them ship half the time...) Very small (appliance like) Case $62.99 http://www.directron.com/2699r.html Still very small Case $47.99 http://www.directron.com/v30.html Still very small Case $43.99 http://www.directron.com/dm317.html Single ethernet 800mhz board $105.00 http://www.directron.com/epia800.html Duel ethernet 1Ghz board $148.00 http://www.directron.com/epiacl10000.html Cheap 128 meg memory $12.99 http://www.directron.com/128266.html Cheap D-Link NIC $4.99 http://www.directron.com/dfe530tx.html Good Intel NIC $24.00 http://www.directron.com/8460c.html Very nice Intel Duel port NIC $34.00 http://www.cmishop.com/store/ShowDetails.asp?txtProductName=nic/pila8472-bk&txtMfgPartNo=&nCategorySubID=125&txtSiteTrack=pw Psudo Hard drive $18.90 http://ec.transcendusa.com/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS32MDOM40V So, a all new, loaded m0n0 box with a small case, 128m ram, an Intel duel port nic, and one slow WAN port on board with a CF "hard drive" comes to $214.88 And if you have a pile of Intel NICs laying around, or use the cheap D-link you are well under $200. And keep in mind that the onboard VIA ether ports are in the same class as the D-link... And if you suddenly decide to order from the, make sure you drop my name. :-) Lee |