Hi, everyone, I just had a thought about IoT for the future... In a typical house for one of us, I suspect that our current modems supply up to 25 or 30 connections when we have company, given cellphones, desktops, laptops, pads, and whatever else our company may be carrying, and that is not even a very large family. Gamers might be more. My home is small for the US, but even in it, if I went total IoT on the things I use, I could consume nearly 60 devices if it were totally connected. In the companies I worked for they had air-gapped the internal systems networks from the outside networks and guest networks. But that implies some investment in servers and modems, and is not likely to happen in peoples homes, unless the setup, costs and maintenance are low. Also I looked at moving my home to a cellphone solution, and their modems generally seem to support only 10 devices. Some cable modems have similar restrictions. Thus to accomplish this would require two or more modems, some control software, some additional cabling, and more network knowledge than I have right now. The hardware investment along would likely be about $300 to do it with commercial stuff. Could a group be formed to somehow create some kind of server node, say with Raspberry PI or similar hardware to support a dual network, internal and external users and local control as a third branch that might address these issues? If it could support fibre, and ADSL, I think it could be a really useful product in the relatively near future. I am not a networking guy, although I have had some background in that area, so my contribution is probably limited to this note. But it is certainly something to think about. Regards, Les H -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
