two questions: why USB2 instead of USB3 and will there be a multi-nic version at some point?

Why is the PI using USB2 instead of USB3 at this point and is there any plan to come out with a multi-nic version of the card? I can see this being used as a very nice little firewall if one could stack, say, 3 nics on the card.

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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

The device is made for kids not for us. We can buy it because among us there are software/hardware developers that just might have something to contribuite to THE PROJECT.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

The device is made for kids not for us. We can buy it because among us there are software/hardware developers that just might have something to contribuite to THE PROJECT.
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Cylon over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

i dont agree its just made for kids... it needs us adults to take a hold of the device and help the younger generation get excited about this sort of technology
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to Cylon

And that means it's made for the kids
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baz4096 over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

I know the founding principle of the Raspberry Pi organisation is to promote programming amongst the youth of today, and I couldn't agree more with their ideals, especially as I was probably the only kid in my school coding ARM assembler on their Acorn RISC OS computers. However, I bought one because

a) it's dirt cheap for what it does,
b) I'd like to be able to stream Airplay video/music into my son's bedroom but can't justify buying an apple tv (nor the hdmi telly to go with it)
c) if b) doesn't work, there's a fair few GPIO ports for me to play with

I'd also like to point out that even though I'm not at school, nor am a teacher, I have already contributed back to the RPi foundation by actually buying an RPi.

Finally, wouldn't setting up a firewall using an RPi be a good way of educating (admittedly older) kids about networking and the various types of traffic/ports etc without going into too much detail? And I can remember seeing a linux tutorial that explained how to turn web images upside-down if your neighbours were freeloading your wifi... I'd have loved to have done something like that at school.
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to baz4096

And I can remember seeing a linux tutorial that explained how to turn web images upside-down if your neighbours were freeloading your wifi... I'd have loved to have done something like that at school.

Would be nice if you could find and post a link to that tutorial :-)
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

alfon1917 wrote:

And I can remember seeing a linux tutorial that explained how to turn web images upside-down if your neighbours were freeloading your wifi... I'd have loved to have done something like that at school.

Would be nice if you could find and post a link to that tutorial :-)
I believe this is what's being refered to:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to baz4096

You don't need 2 NIC for that. Set it up as as a gateway in a network and teach the kid to play with iptables but I'm not sure linux firewall even works with ARM.
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