Linked by JoanneRodgers on Thu 15th May 2008 23:02 UTC
In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, "Bill Gates' house, for example, is totally out of date now. He built it right before wireless happened. The big tunnels for all his wires - he doesn't need any of that stuff anymore." The article wasn't about networking, or even technology, but I was struck by that statement because it was echoed by several people when I was explaining that I was running many thousands of feet of cable in OSNews' "house of the future." "Is all that cable really necessary now that there's wireless everything?" people said. As much as I respect Martha Stewart's business and design acumen, neither she, nor those people who talked to me, know what they're talking about. When it comes to networking, there's no substitute for a wire, when a wire's available. -- This is the latest entry in our 2008 Article Contest. 
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The problem with wireless is that the vast majority of wireless equipment and access points out there are rubbish. Their default security settings are woeful and their reliability isn't fantastic either. If you want wireless get yourself a decent AP:
http://www.ruckuswireless.com/
You'll then have to spend a little bit of time positioning your access point correctly and working out where you want the best reception to be, possibly by doing a site survey with something like Air Magnet:
http://www.airmagnet.com/
Too many people think they can pop down to the local store, buy an access point and it will miraculously provide them with brilliant speed and reliability. There is a price to pay for the freedom of wireless, but not having to connect to a particular network point, especially for people with laptops, and actually being able to work in the garden on a nice summer's day (the adverts make it look so easy) are certainly worth the effort and the payback. Networking has always been based on geographical location mattering less and less.
Edited 2008-05-16 08:58 UTC