Cubed Wrote: > It however convieniently skirts the issues raised by my post, namely > that the SB3 seems to be unduly sensitive to certain routers when > everything else on the network works. It wasn't meant to skirt but to educate.
It's a difficult swamp to negotiate, and the territory keeps changing. It's true, I can't claim otherwise, Slim isn't doing a good job negotiating the swamp right now. My personal solution was to buy a wireless SB1 for the one situation where I absolutely have to have wireless, and to buy wired ones for all the other locations. Most people don't realize how easy and cheap wiring your rooms can be, either the DIY route or the hire-an-electrician route, and don't realize the mountain of trouble they're getting into by getting "cheap and easy wireless" which, like the moral majority, is neither. > I'm not an expert on wireless systems but I have managed to set up my > wife's office and my home using my common sense and carefully chosen > equipment. And I'm not a cajun and I didn't grow up in a swamp, but I have walked across a few once or twice without drowning. However, I would still walk around them when I have a choice. Just because I've never yet run into quicksand doesn't mean it doesn't exist and I won't hit some on my next trip through the swamp. So I tend to stay away. I am a skier. I've never been avalanched. But when I go where they have them, I know about avalanche peepers and I'd wear one if I had no choice. My choice, if I had one, would still be to ski on the other face that day. Or take a snow day and go shopping. I've set up 3 wireless networks. After a fashion, they work. That doesn't make me an expert on wireless and even less on diagnosing, with any authority, which is the malfunctioning component in a malfunctioning wireless network situation. You need packet sniffers and all sorts of stuff I don't have, and I suspect you don't either. The argument that, in this case, everything works but the SB so it must be Slim's fault is specious. It is correct that Slim has not navigated the swamp well (or mine field, if you want to switch analogies). They could do better. Probably much better. They just hired someone with the express purpose of putting more manpower into this specific problem area. So they know there's a problem. But in IT work, we do what's called problem source determination. I suspect if you did it here, you'd find that the source of the problem is non-standard packets on the network put there by the other hardware, not the Slim Devices product. This is based on a track record of 6 months or so here on the forum watching and in some cases assisting with wireless problems. It's almost always been the other hardware malfunctioning. Everything worked fine after it was switched out. The few times it was the Slim box, it was because the slim box didn't know how to handshake the non-standard box to use the proper standards. I'm not a slim employee nor do I have any other financial or other arrangement with them, other than as a customer. But I do think they shouldn't be blamed for things or situations they didn't do or create. I'm prepared to be proven wrong, that in your case the Slim box is malfunctioning, but you need to show me your packets before I'll believe it. And if you can show me, you can show Slim, and I'd bet good money they'll respond faster than Linksys or Belkin or D-Link or any of those guys. > I don't want to get into an argument and I love the SB3 when its > working, infact its because I love it so much that I've kept trying new > firmwares etc and not just sent it straight back. I also appreciate the > people behind the product working so hard to fix things. Me too. Same for most people here. I don't feel this is an argument. Just trying to keep you and others aware of the tradeoffs you're making going to wireless. I do it. Others do too. But really, get a copy of netstumbler. It's free (or cheap, can't remember now). Watch how much you're broadcasting to every kid with a '92 Camero and a laptop that drives by your place. Tends to give you sober second thoughts. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23134 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
