Home networking continues to grow …
So this is really cool to see … more and more home networks emerging on the scene … and I still believe that the wireless (802.11b) solutions are going to decline in price and dominate. It reminds me that this last weekend, when I stayed with my parents at their house in California, I turned on my laptop with my 802.11b adapter inserted … and got a carrier! It appears that one of their neighbors has an access point up and running with no security or encryption key settings … so I got bandwidth for free all weekend on my two laptops! Wild … wireless everywhere …
Home networking market nearly $300 million in revenue in 2000: increases due to a large upswing in home wireless sales primarily by Lucent (now Agere)’s Orinoco division and Proxim.