Star Wired vs Wireless: Sometimes There's No Substitute for a Cable
Linked by JoanneRodgers on Thu 15th May 2008 23:02 UTC
Features, Office In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, "Bill Gates' house, for example, is totally out of date now.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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RE: People are afraid of wires
by Doc Pain on Fri 16th May 2008 16:00 UTC in reply to "People are afraid of wires"
Doc Pain
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2006-10-08

I know people that refuse to buy wired keyboards, and would rather replace the batteries then have the thought that a wire might be connecting it to the computer. Many of these people never move the keyboard or the computer.


Those people would run into massive problems if they had to setup a computer at a secured setting. There, no (!) wireless devices are allowed, simply to protect confidental data. Wireless keyboards' signals can be received with the proper hardware, and even a "super secret" system password can be obtained very easily because any keystroke can be recorded.

In the same manner, wireless data transfers can be decoded with a certain amount of computing power, so wired connections are explicitely forced in secured settings.

Ive also seen people get a wireless router and a wireless network card in order to connect a computer that is 2 feet from the router


And they offer their computers and their Internet connections to the public for free, even for criminal actions, I know. :-)

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