Category Archives: wifiYou know, I’m getting sick and tired of seeing the whole debate about whether or not people who are accessing an open WiFi access point are “stealing.” Give me a break. If you don’t want people using your WiFi, configure at least some security.
Ars Technica has a piece covering the ethics of using someone else’s […]
A while ago, I had replaced a Linksys WRT54G with a Netgear switch and a D-Link DWL-G730AP. One day last week, this router stopped being able to get on the WDS mesh I have set up. This is despite the fact my wife’s computer, which is plugged into the downstairs end of the WDS mesh, […]
This old intermission from a Drive In movie theater pretty much sums up my opinion on Daylight Saving Time (yes, it’s that time again in the US).
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Meanwhile, here’s this week’s rundown of what I’ve written:
Should Your Next Mobile Be WiFi Enabled? (From The Gadgets Weblog)
Voxalot Launches Premium Service And Adds Advanced […]
Let’s Talk asked through the Techdirt Insight Community about why consumers might want to get a WiFi-enabled mobile phone. From what I can tell, my “insight” was posted more or less un-edited to the Let’s Talk PhoneTalk blog. (It’s ok, they paid for the right to do that.) Meanwhile, check out what I said.
Let’s face […]
I took my car into the dealer last week in order to have the heater fixed. It was working, but it needed to be turned on full blast. Since I moved, the car dealer is now about 30 minutes away. I figured I’d hang out while the car got fixed, particularly since the dealer […]
I’ve been getting a little jealous of word that American Airlines was going to add WiFi in their planes. American Airlines is not an airline I usually take. I would have taken them to Ottawa, but they wanted twice as much as Air Canada this time around. It’s also nice to experience different airports every […]
When my son had a Nintendo DS–he lost it someplace he shouldn’t have had it in the first place–he kept bugging me about how he couldn’t get on the WiFi (or as he calls it Wee-fee). That’s because I’m a paranoid SOB and only run WPA on my access points. The DS doesn’t support WPA, […]
Apparently, my Linksys WRE54G wasn’t enough to improve the WiFi experience for my wife. While it did improve the WiFi signal somewhat, we still had more than our share of dropouts, making things less than desirable.
I had a second WRT54GS sitting in my router/switch box in my office, so I finally decided I’d do what […]
The Linksys WRE54G is one of the most retarded pieces of equipment I’ve ever owned. The web interface is buggy and the documentation is as clear as mud. Oh yeah, and it didn’t support WPA out of the box (at least when I bought it a few years ago).
Anyway, I have an occasion where the […]
For once in my life, my inboxes are zero. That includes the RSS reader! Of course, I still have some things in my “to do” file in some of my other inboxes, but hey, I’ll take victories where I can get them. Meanwhile, here is the last of the debris:
Lunch Break Web Worker Style: Most […]
While I was in California last week, my LaFonera, the little WiFi router from FON, that I had gotten for free thru GigaOm arrived. I finally unpacked it this morning and had a gander at it. Very small. White with the splat FON logo on it. Previously, I had gotten a Linksys WRT54G from FON, […]
Being that I am in the Bay Area, and my Aunt and her kids live down in the Santa Cruz area, every once in a while I feel the need to go down there and see them. This time, I even gave them more than a few hours of notice that I was coming so […]
Safely in my hotel room in Sunnyvale, there are a few things that made it above today’s noise threshold:
The i in iTunes should mean INDIE:Ted Wallingford has taken the idea proposed by Michael Robertson one step further: allow anyone to submit music to the store. Make it a truly open marketplace. Like the idea. More […]
I know I said this before: VoIP Hardward Is Boring. I gave some perfunctory reasons before. All of those things are overshadowed by the sheer fact that there hasn’t been any serious innovation in VoIP hardware for quite some time. These devices have become a commodity. I know from working with Voxilla for the past […]
I love the blogosphere. It’s a conversation. Lately, it’s been interesting. Today, I am responding to Mike Puchol at Whisher on my FON vs Whisher posting:
Thanks for sharing your concerns about Whisher, but I believe your analysis is not accurate in some aspects. First, Whisher works on top of FON, that means, you can share […]
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