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The Wireless Setup Goes The Way Of The Paperless Office?
from the that-is...-nowhere... dept
John C. Dvorak is complaining that for all the "idealism" of wireless supporters, it seems like his workspace has more wires than ever. He compares the situation to predictions of the "paperless office," though that's probably going a little too far. People continued to use paper because there's utility in paper over the digital screen for certain things. In the case of wires/wireless, we're simply at a stage where the technology is not yet advanced enough/widespread enough to make eliminating wires a real possibility just yet. He does have a point, though, about the fact that since we've separated (for the most part) the power wires from the data wires, we've simply added to the number of wires out there (though, this is nothing new). Still, over time, getting rid of wireless cables is going to make more and more sense, and there aren't many reasons why people will want to stick with wired solutions when comparable wireless ones are cheaply available.
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Cheap Isn't the Only Hurdle
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He's a Whiner looking for an article to write.
On the other hand, I'm not using a desktop computer. At home, where my laptop is effectively a desktop, I plug it into our 100Mbit network in order to get a little more speed. I also plug it into a USB printer, a mouse, a monitor, and a power supply. At that point, wireless isn't so useful (in fact, I had to run a wire across the living room in order to get faster networking to the computer in the first place).
Dvorak needs to spend a few weeks on the road, living out of coffee shops and airports, and a little time with a well set-up modern office wireless network in order to see how useful it is.
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Well, that's assuming wireless can catch up. Now that it's finally coming close to 100mb/s ethernet, gigabit ethernet is becoming more common. It may be that eventually wireless will be fast enough, and wired networks will only exist in situations that require huge bandwidth like video editing labs or file servers. But in the near term, I think it's more likely you'll see wireless access points added to networks, but the majority of the machines still being wired.
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