I HATE APPLE

OK, apple wireless networking question:

we have an airport extreme and an airport express. the airport extreme is upstairs in the living room, running an 802.11n network at 2.4 ghz. the airport express is downstairs, in a bedroom, connected to a stereo for itunes and a printer for wireless printing.

we just bought a time capsule, and i'm trying to figure out what to do with it.

1) run a parallel network on 5-ghz 802.11n only, with the airport express extending this network. keep the airport extreme on 2.4 ghz for an old powerbook and for iphones.

2) put it in a different spot downstairs and use it to extend the existing network.

3) ??

For what it's worth, I get a lot better performance outta 5GHz than 2.4.

put it in a different spot downstairs to extend network. that's what I do.

Will somebody please talk me out of buying an iPhone???

Extending the network kills performance every time I've tried it.

don't get an iPhone, if you have to have that stuff just get an ipod touch and save yourself hundreds and hundreds of dollars

^^

I told my wife as I went out to run an errand yesterday, "If you need me for anything, just message me through Facebook."

extending the network works fine for me. Check your settings. I think you set it to "bridge" or some shit.

don't get an iPhone, if you have to have that stuff just get an ipod touch and save yourself hundreds and hundreds of dollars

the ipod touch is not a phone

also an iphone is $199, so you mean hundred and hundred of dollars

The only thing putting me off of an iTouch is you have to be near a hotspot. I'd love to get a data-only plan for an iPhone somehow.

haha yes cutty you are brilliant.

i'm just sayin. the phone comes in handy. like when you want to call someone.

;)

Yeh, bridge works fine. If you put it on the other one where the second station rebroadcasts though, it kills the speed. Utility gives you a little warning about it as well.

WDS.

cutty the thing with me is, I already have a phone, and it's smaller than the iPhone.

what is this small phone you speak of

It's one of the 1,000,000,000,000 models of mobile phone produced in the last six years that's smaller than an iPhone.

It's the new iPhone Nano.

i don't think SIZE is the deciding factor in a phone for me. plus you are willing to schlep around an ipod touch if it had a data only plan.

btw i'm not an iphone zealot. i still like blackberrys. if you have an apple computer at home, an iphone is wonderful.

i already schlep around an iPod - sometimes - and it's no big deal. i think i just like having separate devices. (and each one's smaller than an iPhone.)

there you go talking about size again

im very well aware of the iphone's shortcomings. it being TOO BIG never crossed my mind.

Well some of us don't carry purses.

Fuck a blackberry.

vvv blackberry user

PLEASE. i wear tight as fuck jeans and the iphone has never been too big fit in my pockets.

Is that yr iPhone ringing or are you just glad to see me?

No way is a iphone too big. No way. It fits everywhere I've ever had to put it.

Including the road. It survived that tumble btw.

I'm glad you clarified that.

as camille paglia a user who initially resisted on several grounds, including that i preferred a somewhat narrower clamshell phone, the advantage of the iphone is that, while not without problems, it's the best phone/email/web available in a single device. if you don't care about email and web, you're probably better off with ipod + separate phone (preferably on Verizon, in the US). if you do care a lot about email and web, and also about marginal cost and/or tactility (both of keys and overall) and/or c+p, get a blackberry. if you want the best overall device, shortcomings included, get an iphone and don't look back.

the last sentence rings true

2k overall

i use voip on my iphone

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from the excelsior thread. didn't want to continue this convo there. my phone bill is $90/month. how does this translate into $2k? please let me know.

I wish the voice ws better on iphone : (

24 * 90 = 2160

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/15223525_85431314fa.jpg

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

besides retards who like to use VOIP on an ipoh touch

i have an iphone; the plan was only $10-20 more per month than other comparable voice + data plans. i guess the cheap alternative is to not spring for voice + data.

exactly.

Fuck an iphone, that calculator is SO CUTE.

yeah ok the ipod touch is totally useless because it does not force you to buy a voice and data plan from AT&T.

autumn almanac otm though, we need more mustachioed information technology in the 2009

my toaster doesn't force me to buy a voice and data plan from AT&T either. but it doesn't make phone calls.

(it makes toast)

I requested my workplace's wifi password and was told that it was six pages long.

I don't know if that's hyperbole or not, but fuck me sitting here typing in a six-page password with my two thumbs.

Working on hacking the wine bar next door, but I don't know any French.

My iphone doesn't force me to buy from at&t because we don't have at&t here. I could buy one from one of four telcos because our govt actually bothered to do something nice for us in this instance.