On 8/05/2006 11:35 a.m., Simon Lyall wrote:
But that breaks down when you assuming one company is running my fridge and another is monitoring my car brakes. You have 20 companies using some sort of authentication mechanism against your firewall which probably gets a little hard from the average man in the street.
Fair point, I guess it depend on what the point of it all is. I was coming from the view that users would use 'their' internet connection for their own purposes, turn the heater on before they get home, see if there cold beer in the fridge, stuff like that. I'm not sure I'd want to have outside companies accessing my domestic gear (to see how much and what type of beer we bought or to upgrade the ABS software on the brakes or whatever) except at a time and in a manner to suit me. Perhaps other might be happier with this?
Don't forget to add another IP for every WIFI capable cell phone in the household, plus anything else that is mobile.
I have several SIP phones (one wifi after Jonny's excellent talk). They all work fine across NAT and are as good if not better than the landline whose days are happily numbered.