[Blog] The Curse of Wifi
Feb. 1st, 2006 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenAnd now, for something completely different.
I hate Wifi and modern wireless tech. It's flakey, insecure, a PITA to set up, and generally shows all the hallmarks of design by committee. Same goes for wireless keyboards and mice, which I personally find a pointless pain in the neck, tho' if clients are insistent I will set them up for them, albeit with profuse warnings that they will one day regret it. I am usually right; at least one client has reverted to wired devices since.
In recent weeks, I've set up my first powerline networking equipment, replacing an unreliable Wifi link -- and it worked an absolute treat and has made things rather better. I hope to be expanding that system soon, but shortly, I will be installing a slightly different setup at another site. Powerline Just Works™ and it does so very nicely indeed and is much easier, faster and generally more pleasant than that nasty radio-based rubbish.
I know lots of people who love wifi and tell me I'm all wrong and that it works great for them. I'm sure some will comment here. Well, bully for them. I can only suggest that I have perhaps got a smidge more real-world experience of its deep and abiding nastiness than they do.
So I read this article with great interest and pleasure. Go look. I really really hope Guy's right on this one.
Bluetooth set to take over wireless from WiFi as IEEE abandons the fight for UWB
I hate Wifi and modern wireless tech. It's flakey, insecure, a PITA to set up, and generally shows all the hallmarks of design by committee. Same goes for wireless keyboards and mice, which I personally find a pointless pain in the neck, tho' if clients are insistent I will set them up for them, albeit with profuse warnings that they will one day regret it. I am usually right; at least one client has reverted to wired devices since.
In recent weeks, I've set up my first powerline networking equipment, replacing an unreliable Wifi link -- and it worked an absolute treat and has made things rather better. I hope to be expanding that system soon, but shortly, I will be installing a slightly different setup at another site. Powerline Just Works™ and it does so very nicely indeed and is much easier, faster and generally more pleasant than that nasty radio-based rubbish.
I know lots of people who love wifi and tell me I'm all wrong and that it works great for them. I'm sure some will comment here. Well, bully for them. I can only suggest that I have perhaps got a smidge more real-world experience of its deep and abiding nastiness than they do.
So I read this article with great interest and pleasure. Go look. I really really hope Guy's right on this one.
Bluetooth set to take over wireless from WiFi as IEEE abandons the fight for UWB
