[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

Match cycle times would be greatly improved if FIRST would move to a faster-booting bridge. I miss the little black Linksys bridges from 2009, they only took 15 seconds to boot up. It sucks having to wait for the radio to boot after the cRIO has been booted for 30 seconds already. It would make for faster match cycles, which would make for more matches for more teams.

Suggestion to FIRST: allow teams to use the black boxes and a 5 port switch- they even make them in the d-link's exact form factor (I have one in my junk bin) . Yeah, it would draw a shade more power, but it would allow future use of field-specific radios and might perhaps reduce the load on the wireless AP (for intra-robot comms).