On 1/4/11 8:07 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> It could be the 11a support. >> >> Or it might well be the vendor that supplies the 11a equipment. >> >> At home I have a box with 7 defunct WiFi routers that I discarded >> after they started to fail. Specifically the wireless side of the >> router would stop functioning or require rebooting every 24 hours >> or so to keep functioning. >> >> Then three years ago I mentioned the problem on this list and >> bought an AirPort Extreme on the advice of several people. >> >> It has now been running for three years without issue. >> >> >> I do notice that a significant proportion of laptops used at IETFs >> are produced by one specific vendor. And lets face it, we are the >> type of audience that is quite willing to pay two to three times >> the minimum for a laptop.
There's also sorts of interesting ways to calculate net-present value, of a given business tool. Someone who uses a given computer 16 hours a day may have slightly different priorities than someone who uses it for 2 or 4. in the specific case of wireless 802.11a just isn't very common in $300 laptops and netbooks, yet it's invaluable in an environment that we're in at least three times a year so it's trivial to justify the $20-50 retail hit associated with a high-end wireless chipset. > Wouldn't the same be true for media events staged by that same > specific vendor? That was the event the NYT article described. > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list > [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
