February 26, 2005
Wireless life, troubles
Airtunes, Netgear's WGR614 802.11G router, a faster card, a new laptop, a Mac Mini...technical upgrades all around the house.
The Netgear is not reliable! It seems to drop the connection every 2-3 minutes for a split second - so if you are streaming music the iTunes stream just dies, and if you are online in a Windows session it also drops out and has to go through the whole production of reconnecting. Yawn! I don't like it. I'm sending it back. I'm going to get a Linksys (the old 802.11B linksys I had never had these problems with continuity.
The Apple Mac Mini is taking forever to ship! Nearly a month. Typical Apple.
The one that shipped quickly was the iPod Shuffle - but even here there are flaws! The buttons seem to stick so it is constantly fast forwarding or reversing, and it's over-sensitive to changes, so I have to keep it in lock mode often. Sucks.
And while I'm complaining - the iTunes software is buggy for Win XP. It's heavy and crashes from time time (e.g., when the wireless connection to the Airtunes players drops).
The Airtunes player - why, it causes trouble too. Interface is clunky and doesn't play well with windows iTunes.
What else can I complain about? The new laptop is actually great -- Compaq Evo has great battery life, screen brightness, quiet, fast, big disk drive.
The other thing I love is Napster. But I already told you why I love that.
Posted by amol at February 26, 2005 01:32 PM
