8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
3:04 a.m.
In our experience, wireless is fine for casual internet
connections,
thin clients (terminal services, citrix, rdp) but much too slow for
anything that involves any level of data transfer. We sell and support
medical software that transfers very large databases. I have lost count
of how many offices have implimented wireless networks without checking
with us first. They usually scream bloody murder when we inform them
they will have to revert back to wired networks. It seems mostly the
doctors brother-in-law reccomended wireless.
Its funny that you bring that up.
I recently started with a new client, who sells Medical software (patient
charting or something to that effect, don't know exactly, just started
and I don't have anything to do with the actual software).
They are pushing wireless... I just got of a 45 minute phone call trying
to get one of the wireless tablets to reconnect to the network. WLAN was
up just fine, but it wouldn't allow any IP traffic. And of course this is
real fun to debug over the phone, trying to tell a Dr how to check and
change the settings on a tablet that has only an onscreen tappable
keyboard.
I'm dreading my next phone call to him (he had to hang up and deal with
patients), as I'm having a bad feeling the WPA key got screwed up... he
will go NUTS trying to tap in the 61 character phrase I used as the key!
(I couldn't even get it right twice, I had to tap it into wordpad and cut
and paste into the WPA key fields).
-chris
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