The New Year has begun and there is every hope for a great year in spite of the latest news of the loss of 12 coal miners in West Virginia. However, this seems a good time to address a pet peeve of mine that continues to grow more frustrating with each attempt at communication utilizing wireless access to the net.
I have had several opportunities to use the WIFI technology as my access to the “web” and each time I am frustrated by the ongoing lack of reliability of WIFI as a provider for access to the web. It is as squirrely as a used car salesman’s veracity. It is not, in my opinion, a reliable resource that should be expected to provide reliable service – at least I have not found this to be so. I use WIFI from my local area network at home and if I am not sitting in close proximity to my system link, my transmission and access capability is squirrely. After many attempts and effort at utilizing the WIFI offerings that are becoming more prevalent and availabile, I have concluded that WIFI is a developing resource that holds great promise. I have also concluded that the charges for access to the web via WIFI providers exceed its actual value. In my opinion, more development, research and reliability needs to be generated by the providers of this service before it will become a viable resource for communication.
This “blog” will be posted via WIFI from Mexico, in spite of several attempts to gain enough transmission capacity to post it to the web. I will go to the source of the WIFI server and from there, ultimately get on line. From an area within the supposed transmission zone, it is a dud. I love the concept, I am frustrated with the actual performance. Why do our technical “nerds” continue to release and “hype” technology that is not yet perfected? WIFI in my opinion is such a technology.
