Well if you buying from the EU the importer have also pay tax for the import here in germany it is 19% tax for every order over 25€ additional u have to pay vat and so on a router worth 50 usd would easily costs over 70usd this way 
@Rene, so you need to pay $50* (1+0.19+0.22)= $70.5 for a $50 router, right?
EU tax is crazy. I don’t know how people feeling there!
Yes Alfie, for personal use it´s only 19% but taxes gets higher and higher for commercial use
Do you have in china import taxes?
i´m wondering how cheap things in china are for example electronic some electronic costs only 1dollar includes shipping! Here we pay around 75cents to send a letter to someone else located in germany! 😀 In china i could easily get a serial adapter for that price includes shipping to germany 😀
But i think this is how things works the salary in china seems very low to me, Food and rent must be really cheap in china
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/wages According to this the yearly wage is 56339 CNY which is around 8000 Euro (you have to work 4-5 months here for that amount)
Hello Mr. Rene
I was planning to buy computer equipment as CPU – Motherboards – Video Cards – Router and much more directly in Germany.
Why VAT in Germany is very low compared to Italy.
Do you know any German supplier ?
Or you can buy through you in Germany from China and then send the material here in Italy ?
They are looking for a mediator.
Best regards
Bruno D’Ambrosio
Hello Bruno,
i´m very sorry but i can´t help maybe u can take a look @mediamarkt redcoon or these links:
Hello Mr. Rene
These are Mediamarket Italian.
You know Mediamarket Germany ?
In truth they would be needed Wholesalers.
You Know Wholesalers ?
Greetings Rene! Are you in the Aachen area perhaps? (near the Dutch mountains)
Thats a nice project! However, it uses an ‘expensive’ atmel to do the GPIO stuff. It looks less complicated then the route I took. Once this encoder stuff is figured out it should make things more easy. By connecting the encoder directly to the SoC there is no more need to use an extra chip do add a basic selector switch / control knob.
I want to use it as a volume knob / light dimmer and also as a OpenWrt config selector. … yeah too many ideas…
The most practical use would be a config selector for a travel router. By making additional config folders ie /config1, /config, /config3, etc. When you turn the knob then another folder is used. This way you could store an endless number of configurations… Just by connecting a rotary to the GPIO’s But I’m not there yet…. Getting close though. I’m now at the point where i have to figure out what kmod-rotary-gpio-custom wants to know exactly.
I have tried a few things but since i’m not comfortable with it yet i hope i don’t mess up anything.
@ Jeroen : HAHA, I feel that ‘m close though i’m not able to see a few things yet.
@ Alzhao : A display would indeed be a comfortable solution. What does a touch panel cost these days?
In area’s where 3g and wifi-hotspost are not available a LAN (RJ45) would also be welcome.
This MiFi device sounds interesting already.
Yes i understand, but i´m not sure if the soc can handle the timings of the LOW/High´s from the encoder… sadly my rotary encoder is on its way from china to germany, will test in about three weeks xD
i´m located Near Borken (near in the Netherlands Winterswijk)
To reach MediaMarket it’s better to contact the holding: http://www.media-saturn.com
The same holding has MediaMarket and Saturn at a big part of Europe.
In the Netherlands the trademark Saturn doesn’t exist anymore and has been transformed into MediaMarkt (dutch name for MediaMarket).
Cool,
I also had my doubts, but afterall there is kmod-input-gpio-encoder and kmod-rotary-gpio-custom these drivers seem specifically made for using encoders on GPIO pins. A little bit hard to understand how they work, but it’s all there and they seem to exist for quiet some time for linux. And the AR9331 SoC seems to be modern enough. It would be great if someone with more knowledge would jump in and tell us the secrets but it looks like we are the pioneering pirates. HAR HAR!
Now i also have to build a Radio. Then I can tune in to one of the streams from Culturserver.de
Borken That’s not too far from here. It’s a little up north from Airport Weeze right?
I’m 15 minutes south of Eindhoven.
<myforumusername>@ymail.com if there is a need for it.
i´m good thank you, i´ve just ordered a rotary from the uk! http://www.ebay.de/itm/311219577453 looks really nice
Should be arriving in a few days i hope! 😀 Yes the Radio Project does looks good sadly i´m not good at building cases! 😀
i´m located in the Ruhrgebiet,Eindhoven is 1 1/2 hour far away from here by car (144km)
Alzhao, I do not have a problem with the time to boot up. For a laptop it’s about the same and for a phone a lot less. the problem with no battery is I only have 8 hrs from the time I unplug the unit. There are times that I can not use the unit, like while on a plane, where it probably needs to be off any how. I would rather have the switch.
As for the configuration, I would rather have an APP that is only a connection manager for my phone. That would make it easy to store settings too, and deal with the usability issue. BTW, I have used the old iPhone app with my AR150 and it does connect, not played with it however. I do not object to a display if it can come in at a good price.
Again I think the big CPU is very important in the long run, but I would be very happy to have the AR71 for general compatibility
Thanks for listening!
Hello Mr. Rene
This my project “Software HotSpot – No Cloud”
Read the first topic write of me. ( I explain the features of my software)
I am planning to open a partnership with this company. (GL-inet)
I hope very much in their interest.
Hello Bruno,
hope you find a agreement with alfie the software looks cool and sounds really nice.
whats about internet connection does it support vpn or is the router connected directly?
Looks interesting!
About the Media-Market: I misunderstood you. I thought tou were looking for a reseller buy you were looking for seller of computer parts in Germany. I didn’t read the whole conversation. 😛
Hello Mr. Rene
No VPN support.
Is a classic wifi router connected to your broadband modem.
In the links below, a small “File.PDF” of how you can use my software hotspot on a network.
Hello Mr. Jeroen
Yes, I search wholesale for buy computer parts for resale at my client.
It even has all the resistors mounted! In my case the pull-up of de SW was not mounted.
Plastic breadboxes and tupperware boxes make low cost enclosures for prototypes.
Ruhrgebiet now I have to download a few Schimanski episodes to get in the mood and make plans for a visit.
Hello Alzhao that news I have, works pro Reaver II firmware in the AR-150, have you tried it
