From: "D-Link Fire Detector/Router"
To: "Unsuspecting Consumer"
Priority: High
Subject: D-Link Automated Message: OMFG YOUR HOUSE IS BURNING

Body: OMGWTFBBQ ITS BURNING ME AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OW MY A/C ADAPTOR

N N N N I want N.

does it come with a camera?

just askin.

So to actually make this look nice you have to run cable inside your walls and ceiling? Otherwise you'd have CAT5 running up your wall and across the ceiling lookly fugly and thus, defeating the purpose.

Yes having two smoke detectors is much better than just having a freaking router next to the computer. In a hung ceiling environment that would be ok, but good luck if your house burns down explaining to the insurance company how that isn't a smoke detector. Just snap out of it and put the thing on your desk.

If I could be arsed to climb up into my attic and fish CAT5 through the wall, I wouldn't need wireless in the first place.

Why does this seem like a bad idea? Someone's house is going to burn down, for some reason they're going to think the round thing blinking on the ceiling was a working fire detector, and the insurance company is going to take them to town.

All because dad thought it would be cool to have a WIFI ROUTER that looks like a fire detector? Why not make one that looks like a first aid kit or defibrillator?

Lots of companies, DLink included, have been selling enterprise wifi APs in this form factor for years. Most are rebranded Trapeze products:

http://www.trapezenetworks.com/products/mp372/

Installs easily on a drop ceiling by snapping onto the crossbars.

What we need next are smoke detectors disguised as routers so our homes looks more high-techish.

This looks uncannily like SG1's anti-prior device, but in iPod white. :)

Personally, I'm waiting for D-Link to make huge wall displays and integrated ceiling wifi router, smoke-detector, and speaker system so that my hallways can look like Star Trek.

Smoke Detectors are so 20th century.

be really ironic if one of these things causes an electrical fire