Great idea. But it sucks if you live in a house like mine. Two floors, dense walls (which probably have lead and asbestos in them). My PC is only 30ish feet away from the router, if that. But because it's so conveniently located behind two walls, my signal is bad.
Don't get me started on my poor PS3. The TV is on the 1st floor, the router is on the 2nd floor. The signal has to travel through a wall, through a floor, and through some stairs probably... just to reach my PS3. I'm lucky if I get a 20% signal.
It's also unreliable. I'll be sitting on my PC when suddenly I just get disconnected. I actually think the culprit is my WiFi card (it's old as hell) but I still hate wireless.
I'd use powerline networking except the electrical wiring in this house is probably older than electricity itself, so I'd have shitty latency anyways. And please don't tell me to set up my own ethernet wiring. I do not want cables lying all over the house, I don't want to attempt to wire it myself (my house will look like a warzone), and contractors are freaking expensive.
They can communicate with robots on Mars. Robots. ON MARS. So why can't they make a damn wifi router that doesn't suck?!
On an unrelated note, Verizon sucks balls for forcing me to have a second router in my house because they're too fucking dense to send Video On Demand and TV Guide info through their TV signals. I think that also messes with my wireless signals. If I had known they woulda done this, I would've stuck with Comcast for TV.
Don't get me started on my poor PS3. The TV is on the 1st floor, the router is on the 2nd floor. The signal has to travel through a wall, through a floor, and through some stairs probably... just to reach my PS3. I'm lucky if I get a 20% signal.
It's also unreliable. I'll be sitting on my PC when suddenly I just get disconnected. I actually think the culprit is my WiFi card (it's old as hell) but I still hate wireless.
I'd use powerline networking except the electrical wiring in this house is probably older than electricity itself, so I'd have shitty latency anyways. And please don't tell me to set up my own ethernet wiring. I do not want cables lying all over the house, I don't want to attempt to wire it myself (my house will look like a warzone), and contractors are freaking expensive.
They can communicate with robots on Mars. Robots. ON MARS. So why can't they make a damn wifi router that doesn't suck?!
On an unrelated note, Verizon sucks balls for forcing me to have a second router in my house because they're too fucking dense to send Video On Demand and TV Guide info through their TV signals. I think that also messes with my wireless signals. If I had known they woulda done this, I would've stuck with Comcast for TV.
Last edited by HurricaИe (2008-02-17 15:29:45)