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TP-LINK TL-R460 Router disassembly

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Damn, it's been a long time since I've used this router, but I'm sure many average Joes like it who don't care about running on a supercharged OpenWrt router.

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D-Link DSL-321B Modem disassembly

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

This is one of my ADSL modems, currently unused. Being a modem, this device is not particularly interesting to me despite it can be manipulated through Telnet according to its manual. I've never tried this feature.

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TP-LINK TL-WR642G 108M Wireless Router disassembly

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

This is a typical poor man's wireless router. There is nothing much to say about it but I truly liked how the light of the SMD LEDs are routed to the front side.

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Pirelli DRG A225G Router disassembly

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

This is the home gateway given by my ISP, T-Home Hungary. Despite of this, I was determined enough to disassemble this device and hopefully they won't know about it or else I'll be screwed.

As you can see it's loaded with stuff. As for its purpose, it's supposed to be a router plus a voice-over-IP gateway. Bonus points for the wifi chip being featured on a Mini PCI card. I have only used this beast for a short while before switching to my beloved ASUS WL500GPV2 loaded with OpenWrt.

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Linksys 5-Port 10-100 Workgroup Switch disassembly

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

It's my pretty switch that I use in our family house at Harta. Unfortunately, I couldn't remove the heat sink from the main IC to see its type without destroying it so I didn't. Apart from that, the amount of the power supply and EMI circuitry is rather surprising to me.

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Edimax PS1206UWG print server disassembly

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Have you ever seen a print server from the inside?  I can appreciate its two floor design since it's very compact.

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