Threshold's new Home Server Model 1 is meant to make home networking easy

by Paul Miller, posted Mar 23rd 2006 at 2:34PM

We didn't really know that home networking needed fixing, with all the easy to set up devices like plug-n-play security cameras and media extenders that are popping up lately, but Threshold's new Home Server hopes to bring even greater ease to your home network. The device, in its Model 1 iteration, has an Ethernet hub, USB 2.0, and 802.11b/g connections. The box also contains a web server, email server, WINS server, and NAS server to keep everything humming on the computer end. To add a device to your network like a video camera, you scan it across the magnetic "Blue Spot" on the top of the Home Server, which then does all the configuration needed to let you manage the device. The Home Server will go for $300 and should be available in October along with proprietary modules like a motion detector, door/window sensor, and light/appliance control.

[Thanks, Brian]

Filed under: Wireless, Networking

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Michael @ Mar 23rd 2006 3:52PM

Big Woop.

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BigG @ Mar 23rd 2006 4:14PM

So it must have RFID in that little blue spot. I wonder if it is vulnerable to an RFID virus.

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xarph @ Mar 23rd 2006 6:47PM

Lovely; so now in addition to insecure wireless access points and insecure routers there are now going to be insecure email servers in hundreds of homes.

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Brian Hibbert @ Nov 17th 2006 9:20PM

How freaked out will you be when in the middle of the night someone in Eastern Europe turns on your lights ;-)

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Tarry @ Aug 14th 2008 3:39AM

This is great news

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