YOUR HOME NETWORK
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how crappy my home network has become. Of course this has gotten me to think about what my ideal home network would look like. So, for all of you out there, let’s do a little thought experiment. Say you have the money to put together your “perfect” home network. What would it look like? What major components would it use? What services would it run? How would it be organized?
This has been a pretty fun little experiment for me, and I’ve come up with configurations anywhere from relative modesty to incredible setups which would cost tens if not hunders of thousands of dollars and include substantial modifications to wiring and home configuration (network closet anyone?)
Maybe some of you have some ideas. Cheers.
Soekris makes some nifty low-power computers-on-a-board that can be used in wired or wireless routers. I’ve thought about getting one, using it to replace the consumer router I’ve got, and adding a wall-powered USB drive to make it a cheap always-on web/ssh/fileserver.
B. Gates has a pretty good idea.