Comments on: Technology has far to go

By: abe

abe — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:33:24 +0000

Completely agree – wireless networking is the perfect case study in stupidity. Why should humans be subjected to such bad software? It’s not home networking if it doesn’t work safely, securely, and simply in the average home.

You know what else grinds my gears? Cable companies installing cable modems with a single ethernet cable into the back of a Windows machine. That’s like asking for a huge botnet of zombie computers. Why not build a simple NAT router into every cable modem? That must exist for $1, would hardly impact the price. That alone would probably prevent most of the botnets.

By: Abe Murray

Abe Murray — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:33:24 +0000

Completely agree – wireless networking is the perfect case study in stupidity. Why should humans be subjected to such bad software? It's not home networking if it doesn't work safely, securely, and simply in the average home.

You know what else grinds my gears? Cable companies installing cable modems with a single ethernet cable into the back of a Windows machine. That's like asking for a huge botnet of zombie computers. Why not build a simple NAT router into every cable modem? That must exist for $1, would hardly impact the price. That alone would probably prevent most of the botnets.

By: Abe Murray

Abe Murray — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:33:24 +0000

By: James

James — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:24:16 +0000

You know what really grinds my gears? Wireless networking. It’s amazing that the wireless software to manage our radios is so difficult. It does a half-way decent job, but anytime there’s a problem it’s completely untroubleshootable.

“New networks are found”. Great. “Double click on a network to connect.” Double click. Wait. Nothing. Click refresh. “You are not connected to any network. Networks: homenet, unsecured, you are connected to this network, click here to connect.”

And then P2P wifi… while I’m sure it works in some crazy fashion, it’s so obscure that no one uses it. Why can’t it be like rendezvous, a presence-aware thing that just shows you what AP’s and what computers are in the area, and allow you to connect to any at the same time?

Technology is so stupid.

By: James

James — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:24:16 +0000

You know what really grinds my gears? Wireless networking. It's amazing that the wireless software to manage our radios is so difficult. It does a half-way decent job, but anytime there's a problem it's completely untroubleshootable.

"New networks are found". Great. "Double click on a network to connect." Double click. Wait. Nothing. Click refresh. "You are not connected to any network. Networks: homenet, unsecured, you are connected to this network, click here to connect."

And then P2P wifi... while I'm sure it works in some crazy fashion, it's so obscure that no one uses it. Why can't it be like rendezvous, a presence-aware thing that just shows you what AP's and what computers are in the area, and allow you to connect to any at the same time?

Technology is so stupid.