rboatertoo posted:I was just looking at getting the wifi adapter this morning on an advertisers Memorial day sale.
I have 5 tiu's, do I need five wifi adapters? If I do I'll be sticking with the handheld remotes until the price drops substantially!!!!
Yep.
Why would you think the WIU price will drop? In the history of the DCS hardware, it has only gone up (though not often I will admit), never gone down. Why would the WIU be any different? (In fairness the Legacy hardware hasn't dropped in price either).
The only train related tech I recall effectively going down in price was 20 years ago when Lionel first offered the combined Command Base and Remote for TMCC (previously you had to buy each component separately, most likely due to the evolution where the original Power Masters and remote came out first, followed by the command base a bit later). I think the pricing on that combined offering was probably intended as a loss leader though to get people to adopt the tech at that time (and it probably worked! 
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-Dave
