On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> wrote: > 1) retail brand names aren't terribly useful, they change vendors fairly > often
I've noticed that. Retail brand names perhaps may be more useful when it comes to determining support/customer service history. Although past performance does not guarantee future returns, of course. My first thought was Intel, but it appears they don't make USB adapters, only chips/boards that go inside other products. > 3) You should test in your environment. In this case, my environment is "I want some adapters to keep on hand for whatever random people bring in off the street". :-) > 4) Automatically disqualify any part that comes in a USB form-factor with a > swivel-antenna attached to it but when you crack open the plastic case > there's isn't anything attached to the supposed antenna, which is really > just a piece of plastic ... HAH! And I bet you can find online forums with people who swear that the given product is better because of the larger "antenna". My cow-orker found something that came with what looks like a *plastic* parabolic antenna dish. (My problem with the consumer product space is not that P.T. Barnum was right, but that it appears the market for non-suckers is too small to realize any product availability.) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
