[PLUG-AV] Network kit(s), was Re: Another experiment in updating our AV workflow

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:16:42PM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
[...]
> network design needs to be the
> Swiss-Army-Router for all networking situations. That is a project in its
> own right.

Certainly - not to distract from the AV kits.
* An AV kit should be able to expect working wired gigabit
* Setting up AV kits should not have to be in lockstep with with people
  troubleshooting the network.

It would be nice if we could give the networking kit:
* some QoS monitoring (captive portal detected? packet loss/delay detected?);
* its own ability to adapt to wired/wifi/cellular uplinks; and
* a wifi downlink for guests, monitoring, secondary AV kits

We were thinking a small EdgeRouter would be part of that, but there's
a lot of other ways to put it together. Our current proof-of-concept
Pi+cable modem has not worked in every scenario, e.g. last month. Not
due to lack of hardware necessarily, but for getting it documented,
trouble-shootable and/or able to auto-configure itself.

http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/2020-March/084298.html

Nick.

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