On Wednesday 30 January 2002 16:55, Vadim Plessky wrote: > just today we installed router/firewall wireless Access Point in our new > office (which is part of product portfolio of the company I am working for) > And indeed, it doesn't have caching capability. > Do you think that caching capability is very important for such device? > And, do you suggest that primary application for LM would be (in your case) > Caching Server?
My inspiration for this is Rob Flickenger's book _Building Wireless Community Networks_. I have an Orinoco RG-1000 802.11b Access Point on order to begin experimenting with this in my own home. The goal is to share my DSL Internet connection with my neighbors, at least within a range of about 250 feet from my home. The capacity of the Access Point, from 1 Mbps to 11 Mbps, exceeds the speed of my DSL modem, averaging 1 Mbps downstream and 128 kbps upstream. It would improve the efficiency of our community network if my router/firewall/also had caching capability. Then if some of my neighbors are viewing some of the same content, we won't have to retrieve it from the Internet each time. I don't really know how important this is because it is still very experimental. And, I'm definitely thinking about low-cost boxes, built for the masses, easy to use, low power consumption, and costing less than $500 including wireless card and maybe a 60 GB hard drive. One more thing; it should be easily upgradable to IPv6. John Kintree 4043 Delor Street St. Louis, MO 63116 314-351-7454