On 1/4/11 8:07 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
It could be the 11a support.
Or it might well be the vendor that supplies the 11a equipment.
At home I have a box with 7 defunct WiFi routers that I discarded
after they started to fail. Specifically the wireless side of the
router would stop functioning or require rebooting every 24 hours
or so to keep functioning.
Then three years ago I mentioned the problem on this list and
bought an AirPort Extreme on the advice of several people.
It has now been running for three years without issue.
I do notice that a significant proportion of laptops used at IETFs
are produced by one specific vendor. And lets face it, we are the
type of audience that is quite willing to pay two to three times
the minimum for a laptop.
There's also sorts of interesting ways to calculate net-present value,
of a given business tool. Someone who uses a given computer 16 hours a
day may have slightly different priorities than someone who uses it for
2 or 4.
in the specific case of wireless 802.11a just isn't very common in $300
laptops and netbooks, yet it's invaluable in an environment that we're
in at least three times a year so it's trivial to justify the $20-50
retail hit associated with a high-end wireless chipset.
Wouldn't the same be true for media events staged by that same
specific vendor? That was the event the NYT article described.
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