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2007-11-30
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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.
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2007-11-30
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Yeah...... what he said.
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Yeah...... what he said.
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2007-11-30
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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.
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.
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2007-11-30
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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.
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.
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2007-11-30
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@ Marietta, GA, USA--Pombal, Portugal
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anyway......
some of them even work on batteries!
too expensive for my budget(plus my hw6515 doesn't support it)
Originally Posted by johnkzin
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.
I always hate that they call those things "travel routers", or that there's these things called "mobile routers" (cellular USB/PCMCIA to wifi, but no battery in them).
It shouldn't be called travel/mobile unless it it's actually something you can use while traveling/mobile (ie. take the cellular routers, add a battery to them, make them pocket size, and NOW you've got a travel/mobile router).
some of them even work on batteries!
too expensive for my budget(plus my hw6515 doesn't support it)
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2007-11-30
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Originally Posted by xPAKxMaster
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.
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)
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 :-).
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2007-11-30
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Originally Posted by fpp
the 3g routers i'm talking about are full featured dhcp routers for multiple clients!
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 :-).
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2007-11-30
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Originally Posted by evanjfraser
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.
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.
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2007-11-30
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
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.
Interestingly, the "guy who discovered America after Columbus", was Amerigo Vespucci. And guess who got a continent named after him?
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
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2007-11-30
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Originally Posted by xPAKxMaster
It's "WiFi repeater" mode is quite nice... though, repeater mode is not supported for encrypted WiFi networks.
this is of course the LINKSYS WTR54GS wich is available at newegg(cheapest i found, even cheaper than ebay!)
have fun.
-- Denis