{"id":285,"date":"2007-11-07T01:11:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/07\/wireless-networking\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T01:11:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:11:38","slug":"wireless-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/07\/wireless-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m yet to see an OS get wireless networking right. I&#8217;ve now worked pretty extensively with configuring and fixing wireless network configurations on XP (SP2) and Linux (Ubuntu). And frankly, both are disappointing. A few comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>(Linux) I can see three wireless networks. Why am I connected to none of them, even after clicking on one of them?<\/li>\n    <li>(Both) I have a good connection, and all of a sudden, I have no network connection. I spent fifteen minutes fiddling and it still won&#8217;t come back. Windows includes a &#8220;Repair&#8221; function, and I&#8217;ve seen lots of people use it. I have <strong>never<\/strong> had it do anything, nor have I have <strong>ever<\/strong> seen it work for someone. I&#8217;m fairly certain it&#8217;s an inside joke at Microsoft or something.<\/li>\n    <li>(Both) You reboot and the wireless usually comes back up just fine. What the heck is going on? Why, with all the amazing developers working on both platforms, has no one ever figured a way to just bring the network down and back up? (Actually, you could argue that both OSs provide this &#8212; Linux lets you disable it and re-enable it, and Windows lets you &#8220;Repair&#8221; it. And yet neither of them works.)<\/li>\n    <li>(Windows) Why, when you can&#8217;t connect, do you give me a <em>fake<\/em> IP? There&#8217;s some bizarre netblock that Windows users get put on when they don&#8217;t actually have a network connection. What gives?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that WiFi was some technology that had only been out for a few months&#8230; But there have been <em>years<\/em> to get it right. Why has no one ever made it work right?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m yet to see an OS get wireless networking right. I&#8217;ve now worked pretty extensively with configuring and fixing wireless network configurations on XP (SP2) and Linux (Ubuntu). And frankly, both are disappointing. A few comments&#8230; (Linux) I can see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/07\/wireless-networking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-programming","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}