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prusikI've been playing with the iPhone all weekend. Ok, it's more like "if I make it to this plot point, I get to try out this iPhone feature." I'm not proud. The upshot is I have most of a story fixed and I've played with the iPhone.
Anyway, the startling discovery of the weekend is that AT&T's 3G network is at least twice as fast and much more consistent than my home wireless network. I have, therefore, decided to replace my 10+ year old wireless router with something newer. It should show up in a week or so. (Ultimately, I don't need this that quickly.)
No, I'm not doing this just for the iPhone. The home wireless network is actually extremely useful when I work from home. I just didn't realize that it wasn't working right until I starting playing with the iPhone. i.e., performance isn't supposed to go down when you switch from 3G to WiFi. Maybe this just points out how little bandwidth I expected from my wireless connection. (On the plus side, if I can get the wireless bandwidth something near typical, the whole work from home scenario will improve drastically.)
At first, I worried it might be my iPhone. However, my laptop experienced similarly awful throughput. (I'd never occurred me to do any bandwidth testing until now.) Also, my iPhone behaved fine in another WiFi network. (iPhone customers get free AT&T WiFi at various bookstores and coffee shops. I felt guilty though, so I bought a caffeinated beverage.)
On top of the (purely elective) cost of the wireless router, there is also the (purely elective) cost of the apps I'd like to get. Obviously, I'm not buying them all at once. That'd be insane. (Fortunately, some of the ones I want are free.) However, this is like when I first bought the condo and spent every weekend for at least several months going to home repair warehouse stores. It's not just the initial purchase. There are all these ancillary costs on top of what you already know about.
Granted, most of it is optional, and not important in the grand scheme of things. e.g., as much as I want to turn my iPhone into a loop sequencer, I don't need to do it right this moment. A VNC viewer, OTOH, may be immediately useful for work among other things. Of course, EverNote and some sort of text editor...)
Anyway, the startling discovery of the weekend is that AT&T's 3G network is at least twice as fast and much more consistent than my home wireless network. I have, therefore, decided to replace my 10+ year old wireless router with something newer. It should show up in a week or so. (Ultimately, I don't need this that quickly.)
No, I'm not doing this just for the iPhone. The home wireless network is actually extremely useful when I work from home. I just didn't realize that it wasn't working right until I starting playing with the iPhone. i.e., performance isn't supposed to go down when you switch from 3G to WiFi. Maybe this just points out how little bandwidth I expected from my wireless connection. (On the plus side, if I can get the wireless bandwidth something near typical, the whole work from home scenario will improve drastically.)
At first, I worried it might be my iPhone. However, my laptop experienced similarly awful throughput. (I'd never occurred me to do any bandwidth testing until now.) Also, my iPhone behaved fine in another WiFi network. (iPhone customers get free AT&T WiFi at various bookstores and coffee shops. I felt guilty though, so I bought a caffeinated beverage.)
On top of the (purely elective) cost of the wireless router, there is also the (purely elective) cost of the apps I'd like to get. Obviously, I'm not buying them all at once. That'd be insane. (Fortunately, some of the ones I want are free.) However, this is like when I first bought the condo and spent every weekend for at least several months going to home repair warehouse stores. It's not just the initial purchase. There are all these ancillary costs on top of what you already know about.
Granted, most of it is optional, and not important in the grand scheme of things. e.g., as much as I want to turn my iPhone into a loop sequencer, I don't need to do it right this moment. A VNC viewer, OTOH, may be immediately useful for work among other things. Of course, EverNote and some sort of text editor...)
