I find the thought of using WiFi/tablet intriguing. If I wanted to get into it seems I am looking at about $350 to do it. Used tablet approximately $150, MTH WiFi unit Retail $180 street price $161 and a dedicated router say $40. That isn’t that bad and I could buy the items separately so it isn’t one big purchase at one time.
Most of the time I run my trains under DCC. The system I have is NCE. I don’t know when they came out with their current system but it was before DCS. I remember folks on this forum comparing the new MTH DCS remote (not yet released) to the already existing NCE remote. There are some similarities as noted back then. What I don’t understand is why isn’t NCE, Digitrax, Lenz or any of the other DCC companies saying the same thing as MTH-that their chips are obsolete, etc and their customers should invest in using tablets and WiFi? The NCE remote is even older than the MTH remote.
Disclaimer: I am a big MTH fan and I am not knocking MTH in any way. Most of my trains are MTH and I love their products. Just trying to understand why they are doing what they are doing.
Possible answer: Is it possible that because NCE is made in the USA that they have a machine that makes chips and they can make any chip they want? I don’t know just taking a guess in the dark.
