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- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Wireless is indeed very handy. (Typing this from the middle of a lecture theatre right now.) But if you can use wires, you should. Mate of mines has a problem at the moment using a WiFi connection for gaming and just general internet browsing. Unfortunately there is a particularly heavily wired wall between him and the router he's trying to connect to, so his connection drops routinely.
As with all things, wireless is good when it works. - piesforyou, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14OK, yes, wireless is very handy, and perhaps not over-rated. But wires are definitely under-rated these days. When it comes to desktops, wires are the best solution. Better transfer speeds, less connectivity problems, more secure, and perhaps most importantly; not usually affected by Christmas decorations.
I'd much rather fit cable through my house than go wireless. It's not hard and is invisible when done well. - Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I want -300 diggs.
- jdb252, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7That's kind of what it is.
So if you hate your wireless scavenger neighbor, get out that tinsel. - austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5no digg, marked as lame, the actual article was on here a few days ago and they really dont have much evidence to back this all up.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3At least the summary is accurate this time.
Remember folks, tinsel is just another name for chaff on a string. - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"I want -300 diggs."
Too bad, I dug you up, so NYAH! - jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My work wont let us put any decorations anytime of the year for this reason. It started when we were having reception problems for more common things...cubical walls. We have the most stark office now! It sucks. Now we can't celebrate holidays at all...at least not with decorations!
- tritium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Now if they'd make cellphone jamming Christmas decorations. I'd cover my car with them... year round.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Not many people have been dugg up a lot. Jokes bombing tonight guys? What went wrong?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7"Why would you want a wire when you could have none? Wires/no wires..it seems obvious to me. I've been using computers since 1985 and I'll tell you what, having a laptop that I can take anywhere (like the toilet) is the single most important tech development for me."
I'm going to say: Speed, security, reliability, almost immune to any interference. You can run your microwave without any ill effects with a wired network. - profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2EDIT: Oops. My mistake. I had said it was a duplicate, but it's not. Bury me. Getting buried seems to be the new black today anyway.... :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2complete *****.
- nahsrocketeer75, on 10/12/2007, -11/+9As noted a week ago here:
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Holiday_Wi_Fi_warning_as_obvious_as_Santa_s_beard
A member of the Network World Test Alliance, Joel Snyder, called the vendor out on this one in pretty explicit terms.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9520 - got80s, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I call ***** on this story because as soon as my neighbors put up their decorations I got a better signal.
- ALBB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Could happen. The issue is the water in trees and mostly the sparkles...
Causes RF diversity.
Gary CEO www.tribecaexpress.com - freff, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5I think it's got to be reps from the Wifi industry, attempting to bury the entire thread out of spite.
Everybody panic!
It is funny coming into a thread, and seeing everyone in it with negative diggs. - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3It's not EMI, it's signals being reflected off at all angles.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6massive digg down in progress?
- zm634, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Another reason for the man to stick it to ya. No festiveness in the office anymore.
- tombomb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Santa is stealing our internets! He must be stopped!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Bury war! This is like the second one today.
- gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Problem solved?
http://digg.com/gadgets/WiFi_Christmas_Tree_The_Ultimate_Ornament - freff, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2We can't bury these damn comments fast enough. Where are they all coming from!
Down you digg comments, and stay down! - cyberscape2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Is everyone just digging comments down in here for the heck of it?
- Bigbro69, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7I thought someone had invented Christmas baubles that had a WiFi jammer in them.
...Evil. - thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4It's funny. I used to read /. but switched to digg because it had more content. Slashdot seemed to just post whatever was up on digg the week before. Now, digg's content seems to more and more mirror whatever's been up on reddit for a few days. Reddit also has more content than digg, at least in # of stories.
I'm not necessarily complaining. A story is a story, and if it strikes a chord someplace on the net, it seems natural that it'd propagate given the web's nature... but it's an interesting phenomenon. - kersny, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2+digg for mythbusters reference. Other than that, I have noticed Wifi degrading over the holiday, and that's why I hate Christmas... Decorations
PS. and music - patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2OMG! Even the computer geeks are part of the War on Christmas!
- Settra, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Or even CAT5E?
- growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3I always wondered why it took forever to download porn around Christmas
- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7Fiber? CAT6?
- patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -17/+10Why would you want a wire when you could have none? Wires/no wires..it seems obvious to me. I've been using computers since 1985 and I'll tell you what, having a laptop that I can take anywhere (like the toilet) is the single most important tech development for me.
Edit: Well, I guess that I could run ethernet into the bathroom, but what would the guests think? - digitalrift, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2It's called EMI, this is nothing new. This is sort of like when you're car moves over electrical power lines it interferes with a radio station you're tuned to.
- piesforyou, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8I completely agree, wireless is over-rated.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Oh goshers, I guess I won't be able to surf the internet while I have dinner on Christmas Eve with my extended family and my grandmother who I haven't seen for 5 years.
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6Just another reason why WiFi sucks.
You just can't beat that CAT5. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3I'm digging this because Kevin Rose dugg it!
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