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

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]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2006 3:52PM]

Big Woop.

[BigGP Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted 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 ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 14th 2008 3:39AM]

This is great news

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