Hello Walter,
John Reimer wrote:
Wired is not necessarily backwards. :) Despite the tangly lines,
it's just easier to keep secure.
There are more reasons to like wireds. Plug the wire in, and it works,
you're up on the LAN. With wireless, there's usually 3-5 minutes of
fiddling to get connected. And if it won't connect, you have no idea
why, so you go cold boot the machine, cold boot the wireless access
point, hold the antenna up, etc. Phui.
Don't tell me this is fixed, either. I just got a brand new eee pc.
Plug in the wire, boom, perfection. Use the built in wireless, and
fiddle, faddle, cold boot, faddle, fiddle, cold boot, fiddle, faddle,
ah, now it's working. This is in the *AS SHIPPED* configuration, not
something I downloaded or installed.
Yeah... there are more complexities with wireless, for sure. That said,
I haven't had that much trouble with wireless (not even on my eee pc). It
sometimes does require a fairly detailed knowledge of configuration, however,
compared to wired. When that's been the case, I have struggled with it.
-JJR
