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To: Boplicity who wrote (138300)	8/3/1999 11:05:00 PM
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<<Will "residential gateway" fuel home networking trend? By Wylie Wong Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 3, 1999, 12:40 p.m. PT Broadband Internet access will fuel the sale of a new appliance that will let consumers network PCs and other devices in their homes, new studies show. Cable providers, telecommunications carriers, and high-tech firms are all working on new home appliances that will serve as a control center for connecting high-speed Internet access with other home appliances, PCs, and phone services. The companies involved, including AT&T, 3Com, and Motorola, all believe the new appliance, called a "residential gateway," will be as common in the home as refrigerators and ovens. But analysts say its success hinges on numerous factors: competing technologies and a current dearth of standards could hobble the technology's development. The appliance must also be reliable, easy to use, easy to maintain--and cheap, they say. >> snip <<Despite some success in selling home networking kits that connect PCs and the recent high-profile announcement by Apple, which will offer wireless networking on it's new iBook, companies have to do a better job marketing home networking technology, Uppal said. Of the 2,000 people surveyed in the Yankee Group study, 49 percent said they didn't know whether they'd ever network their home. "There's a significant level of education that needs to happen," she said. "Once it starts happening, it will be easier to get the ball rolling. It's going to be: You go to a friend's house, and they could do cool things like turn the lights on [remotely with a handheld device or browser] or playing multiplayer games on the PCs." Wolf said the technology must also be reliable and easy to maintain. A new breed of systems integrators, such as Radio Shack, can install and service the technology, much like phone and cable service is done today. "Reliability is a huge piece of the puzzle. Anything resembling the difficulty of a Windows-based PC will not fly as we all know how much Wintel machines hang up." >> The above is why DELL should have turnkey systems, checked out and ready right out of the box. THE TIME IS NOW MIKEY, push this, DO NOT FOLLOW! Further more, DELL should make sure they follow-up with E-Mails once new and cool stuff comes out, so those people that bought homenetwork can go to gigabuys and buy those connected microwaves.. <gg> I said this yesterday, they must read my post. <ggg> go to cnet to read the rest. Greg