Using the ESR9850 with my M1 Fibre broadband

Got my paws hands on the EnGenius ESR9850 to replace the D-Link DIR-300 4-Port Wireless-G 54Mbps Router at mum’s place. Others are getting it to replace their D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Gigabit Wireless Router. The EnGenius ESR9850 is a 300Mbps Wireless N router with Gigabit switch.

So theoretically for internal LAN transfers, you can transfer a 700MB file wirelessly in 19 seconds instead of 2 minutes on Wireless G. The same file transfers over wired Gigabit interface under 6 seconds while it will take close to 1 minute on routers with 100Mbps interface.

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The change in the location of hard disk mounting point in the DNS-320 broke fonz’s fun_plug. fonz’s fun_plug was created to run on earlier D-Link NAS (DNS-313, DNS-323, DNS-343) whose Volume_1 was mounted at /mnt/HD_a2. In DNS-320′s case, Volume_1 was actually mounted on /mnt/HD/HD_a2.

This change in mounting point also broke some of the packages created earlier as rely on /mnt/HD_a2 for storage. Transmission Bittorrent client (transmissionbt) is one of the packages that won’t run on the DNS-320 out of the box.

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For those who are curious about the DNS-320′s cpu and memory. The DNS-320 comes with a 800Mhz CPU and 128MB of RAM.

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The D-Link DNS-320 outperforms the D-Link DNS-323 in terms of network throughput  for read/write tests.

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D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2 Bay NAS DNS-320 released at Sitex (November 2010)!

Managed to get my hands on the DNS-320. Speed tests will be conducted later on as the DNS-320 is still formatting the two units of Samsung 2TB F4 drives. Mental note, it formats the Right disk first.

Check out D-Link ShareCenter Pulse DNS-320 deals on Amazon.

So in the mean time, enjoy the pictures first!

If you work in an organization with no image capturing equipment policy, look here! The HTC Touch2 non-camera phone was released recently, adding itself to the list of non-camera smart phones (Nokia E51, Sony Ericsson G700, HTC Snap, Gigabyte Gsmart S1200, etc).

But is the HTC Touch2 non-camera the phone you are waiting for? Or you are hoping that Apple releases iPhone non-camera? Well, while you are waiting for Steve Job to announce it (if iPhone non-camera even exists) and you don’t mind a WinMo (Windows Mobile) phone, probably you can give the HTC Touch2 a try.

Bought the HTC Touch2 non-camera just a while back and been using it for perhaps 2 weeks or so. Let me jot down my review of this phone.

Key Features

• 2.8″ 65K-color QVGA display
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional OS with TouchFLO
• Qualcomm MSM7225 528MHz CPU and 256MB RAM
• Quad-band GSM support
• 3G with HSDPA 7.2Mbps
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• microSD card slot
• Touch-sensitive zoom bar
• Standard miniUSB port and Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Opera 9.5 web browser
• YouTube client, Facebook integration

Some not so good points

• Low-end display resolution
• No accelerometer sensor
• Poor screen sunlight legibility
• No handwriting recognition