Wireless is crap
Throw away your cables and experience the freedom of an intermittent network connection!
I, like Martin Luther King, had a dream when I was younger. Admittedly mine was probably a tad less noble, but nonetheless I had a vision of a utopia I hoped one day to fulfill; there would be a room in my house with multiple gaming machines all hooked up to play together.
Unlike Dr King my dream has come to fruition, and I have the luxury of many PCs all networked in my house which somehow I managed to convince the wife was a great idea of the years.
Under the previous operating environment these mighty constructs of electronics were able to communicate with one another through the medium of Cat5 cabling, and all was well. However somewhere in the bowels of efficiency there was a blockage – all this cabling was unsightly, messy, cumbersome and worst of all, blue. Blue cabling doesn’t go well with most decor, and so a couple of years ago I made the radical move to switch everything over to the much hallowed saviour of networking – wireless.
At last, move PCs around and still see the network! Remove the need for one PC to act as a gateway for the others to the interweb. No more wires! No more fuss!
In actuality the result is this – no more playing network games without one machine or another regularly dropping connection!
Why is it that I can connect easier to my neighbours’ unsecured networks than I can my own? Why is it that on my PC the network gets a weaker signal than the PC 3 feet further away from the hub? Why does the connection work just fine one day then refuse to see anything 24 hours later?
You know why?
Because it’s crap.
So, today I am investing time and effort in putting back in a wired network.
“But wait!” I hear you cry “Have you tried [insert bollocks here]?” Yes I have. I’ve tried everything I can think of, I’ve had the router sat 2 feet from my PC and my PC being unable to see the network (while able to see one 3 houses away without a problem). I’ve updated drivers, restored firmware, gently tweaked antennae and the basic result is the same – sometimes you get a good connection, sometimes bad, sometimes not at all.
I’ve also used other wireless networks on other PCs and you know what happens there? THE SAME FUCKING THING.
So to that end, wireless networking can kiss my ass.
If you want to respond to this post with something uplifting like “my wireless connection has never given me any trouble” please feel to do so but rest assured I will be setting fire to you with my mind. Nothing personal.
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