On 30 July 2010 09:53, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > 2. Yes, they are already available. A moderate PC with 4 Gig-E > ports can actually route all four of them at near wire speed. > For 10/100Mbps, you can get full featured CPE like the SRX-100 > for around $500. That's the upper end of the residential CPE > price range, but, it's a small fraction of the cost of that > functionality > just 2 years ago.
A moderate PC is not a typical CPE. An SRX-100 is not a typical CPE. A Draytek DSL modem/router is not a typical CPE. Your typical CPE is, and always will be, a simple device. It will (and should) contain no user configuration that is required for operation. If it does, it's too complicated for the average user. > Home sensor network and/or appliances If it's really necessary to put these on a separate network, I highly doubt anyone but the true gadget geek will bother. > Kids net (nanny software?) Should be sorted at the PC-level, not the network level. If it really is going to be a network service, it should be off the home network and a managed service by an ISP somewhere. > Home entertainment systems Really? A separate network just for an HTPC? > Guest wireless Wireless is polluted enough. Supposing everything's fixed in the future and there is near-unlimited wireless spectrum, your average user is just going to give the encryption key to the router to the guest. Network management is not on the radar for 99.9% of resi users. Seriously, this is getting silly. I'm not even going to respond any more - if you genuinely think users care about network management, you're wrong. They treat it as a black box, and that isn't going to change for a long, long, long time. M
