72276539
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join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA
| 802.11g didn't work
And this won't either, hell, 802.11g doesn't work 100% still... why not make something that is a standerd work instead of complicating the mess with yet another wireless standard thats not even done. That would be too easy, but hey, if someone buys this crap before the standard is finished and gets burned, thats on them. And I will laugh at them because there will be people dumb enough to buy the equipment without a standard. Too bad the IEEE couldn't just stop posting what it was doing, would be fun for chip makers to have to see the entire standard before making chips. Would do wonders for getting everything talking correctly.
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Roop
join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON | YES ANUBIS!!! that's exactly what i was thinking. also, picture and radio? that will never work either! |
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youngmoore
join:2001-03-16
Marietta, GA
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| More to the point what about all those Centeno "Intel" chip sets out there in laptops?? most work with b,a,g but will they be able to upgrade them via firmware to use this new standard?? I don't think so. Seems like the faster we move ahead the more we leave behind.
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72276539
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join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA | reply to 72276539
Thank you for the asinine comment, may I have another? |
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FutureMon
OW My Eyes
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join:2000-10-05
Colorado Springs, CO
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said by 72276539  :
And this won't either, hell, 802.11g doesn't work 100% still... why not make something that is a standerd work instead of complicating the mess with yet another wireless standard thats not even done. That would be too easy, but hey, if someone buys this crap before the standard is finished and gets burned, thats on them. And I will laugh at them because there will be people dumb enough to buy the equipment without a standard. Too bad the IEEE couldn't just stop posting what it was doing, would be fun for chip makers to have to see the entire standard before making chips. Would do wonders for getting everything talking correctly.
I was going to be the first post to this news article, but I couldn't come up with the right words. Looks like you nailed my thoughts exactly though.
Big companies would be stupid to invest in wireless at the rate they are coming up with new standards (unless of course they are just looking for a write-off).
Get the existing ones stable first is what I think they should do.
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8744675
join:2000-10-10
Decatur, GA
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Hopefully if Broadcom gets their feet in first, they will convice all the others to follow a single standard like they did with the short lived HPNA networking cards. HPNA net cards are one of the only peripherals (possibly the only ones) in recent times, where all manufacturers followed the same standard so there is only 1 driver that works for every brand of card. Microsoft and others should learn something from them instead of screwing the public by using proprietary standards that are incompatible with other versions. We still haven't got web browsers that will work on every site, and it's the web developers who take the brunt having to write 3 or 4 different versions of a website to work with incompatible browsers. |
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8744675
join:2000-10-10
Decatur, GA
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Hopefully if Broadcom gets their feet in first, they will convince all the others to follow a single standard like they did with the short lived HPNA networking cards. HPNA net cards are one of the only peripherals (possibly the only ones) in recent times, where all manufacturers followed the same standard so there is only 1 driver that works for every brand of card. Microsoft and others should learn something from them instead of screwing the public by using proprietary standards that are incompatible with other versions. We still haven't got web browsers that will work on every site, and it's the web developers who take the brunt having to write 3 or 4 different versions of a website to work with incompatible browsers. |
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Hawk
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join:2003-08-25
La Quinta, CA
| reply to youngmoore
said by youngmoore :
Seems like the faster we move ahead the more we leave behind.
That's a very interesting point! Dose there come a point where speed becomes irrelevant?
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LordMalak
join:2003-07-02
Brazil
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said by 72276539 :
And this won't either, hell, 802.11g doesn't work 100% still... why not make something that is a standerd work instead of complicating the mess with yet another wireless standard thats not even done. That would be too easy, but hey, if someone buys this crap before the standard is finished and gets burned, thats on them. And I will laugh at them because there will be people dumb enough to buy the equipment without a standard. Too bad the IEEE couldn't just stop posting what it was doing, would be fun for chip makers to have to see the entire standard before making chips. Would do wonders for getting everything talking correctly.
Because, like every engineer knows, it's sexier to work on new products than to fix old ones...
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