Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

Yup, I'm a jerk. I visit this site quite often and I am angry because the signal to noise ratio on this board has gone way, way down due to lots of users posting without searching and ineffective anti-spam methods. Posting before searching creates lots of redundant posts that scatter useful knowledge across multiple threads and makes it more difficult for people to find the information for which they are searching. If you had done even a simple search you would have found a number of posts thorough beating the subject of travel routers into the ground.

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

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Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

Some of the regulars on this board are amongst the most arrogant and rude I've come across from a technical community online. The problems that ITT experiences with new users is NO DIFFERENT to that of any other community forum for consumer products. So stop acting like it's special.

There is no need to vent your frustration out on new users, it just turns more potential users away.

Remember, without it's community the tablet is Nothing. People are more likely to develop a product if there are more people likely to use, so stop shooting yourself ( and the rest of us) in the foot.

Evan.

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

I wasn't trying to excuse anyone, I was making a point about this thread.

With the recent flurry of activity on this board, due to the upcoming OS2008 and N810, and new 770/N800 users after prices fell, it's getting hard to keep up with new posts, even checking in several times a day.

Unfortunately, a vast majority of the active threads are dupes. Sometimes even between themselves like on the OS2008 beta (there are no moderators to merge them), often with past threads in which a topic has been soundly covered, like this one.

This background noise could be easily avoided by not treating this forum as a "write-only" medium, and a couple of cursory searches before creating a new topic.

So yes, it was said in an unnecessary aggresive way - but it was true.

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

anyway......

yes johnkzin, there are routers like that on sale on ebay, they use a usb connection to you phone and act as a 3g/dsl/gprs router on the go.

some of them even work on batteries!:)
too expensive for my budget(plus my hw6515 doesn't support it)

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

Except for the special, desperate case where you would want to share that 3G connection between several Wifi clients, I don't see the advantages for individual use. It's easier and simpler to have a Bluetooth 3G phone and connect the tablet directly through it : one less battery to keep charged, one less item to carry. Plus the tablets last much longer using Bluetooth dialup than Wifi, in my experience.

The use case for those pocket ethernet/Wifi routers you mentioned look much clearer to me... provided the LAN you plug them into has DHCP enabled (wouldn't work at my job :-).

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

the 3g routers i'm talking about are full featured dhcp routers for multiple clients!:)

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

Well said. And if the members of this board want to keep the signal-to-noise ratio down, they aren't helping things by posting rude, arrogant remarks. As the internet tablets gain in popularity, this board is going to see an increase of new users. Internet Tablet Talk should adapt and change with this growth.

America is named after <blank/>
 

A Welsh guy - *not* Amerigo Vespucci. As pointed out on QI, if it was named after Amerigo Vespucci, it'd probably be called Vespuccia or similar.

Places are named after surnames (unless you're a king), it's actually more likely that America is named after Richard Amerik:

http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wale...ml#americaname
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content.../amerike.shtml
http://www.blurtit.com/q613801.html

Re: Ethernet on N800 made simple
 

It's "WiFi repeater" mode is quite nice... though, repeater mode is not supported for encrypted WiFi networks.

-- Denis