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	Karel Jansens	2007-11-29 , 23:55
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Originally Posted by Rocketman

Wow, you have just discovered a wireless router. Congratulations, that is kinda like that guy who discovered America after Columbus...you know.....ok so I don't remember his name either. There are tons of access points better suited for travel use. They are usually even given the oh so clever name of travel routers. I like the DWL-G730AP which is smaller than a pack of cards and can be powered via usb or wallwart, comes with a little carrying case and can operate as a bridging AP, router or ethernet client bridge.

Interestingly, the "guy who discovered America after Columbus", was Amerigo Vespucci. And guess who got a continent named after him?

Which goes to show that sarcasm is a very fine art, and can easily backfire.

(And to add insult to injury, the first cartographer who used the name "America" for the continent, was Mercator[*], one of my tribe)

____[*] Nitpicking time: While it is true that the cartographer Waldseemueller used the name first, he only applied it to the region around Brazil. Furthermore, he stopped using the name in later editions. But Gerardus Mercator pulled a timewarped burn on "Rocketman" in 1538. So there.

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