Wireless Everywhere
Monday, January 23, 2006
Keywords: Technology
A little chat I had tonight...
vivienm: *hugs wireless internet in class*
Kai: wireless is everywhere these days
Kai: every single *budget* motel that we stayed at during our trip to Florida had free wireless
Kai: I run network stumbler, and I can pick up over a dozen different signals
Kai: it's ridiculous
Kai: the weekly brick&mortar ads now dedicate a page or two each week to wifi crap
Kai: it's mainstream
Kai: *sigh* remember back in the day, like 5 years ago, when this stuff was cool and exclusive?
vivienm: my laptop picks up... 5 wireless networks here
vivienm: including mine
vivienm: *shrug* I remember when the equipment was horribly pricy
vivienm: and when it wasn't built into laptops :P
Kai: yah
Kai: $120/card when I got mine, and that was on sale
Kai: now cards are dirt cheap and $120 gets you a premium high-end base station
vivienm: I got my current 802.11g router (which isn't used for routing) for like $10 after MIR
Kai: $10 CDN?!
Wow, 5 years! Seemed just like yesterday for me. And the number of networks that I could pick up at this particular location went from zero to over twelve in less than four years.
This entry was edited on 2006/01/23 at 03:54:21 GMT -0500.
