Computing

I hate WiFi.

Teeny tiny little hotspots that all too often suffer from overcomplicated access restrictions, jitter, or downright abysmal WAPs holding it all together.

Yet even in the summer of 2011, WiFi connections still rule the mobile connectivity waves. Every handset, for example, favours WiFi over a 3G connection; a crushing but brutally honest testimony to the failure of UMTS/WCDMA to deliver high speed mobility at 2100MHz.

Anecdotal evidence suggests ...

I could've sworn blind that by now almost every laptop rolling off of the production lines would have a SIM slot as standard. Like WiFi, 3G connectivity would become the norm, and new tariff structures from mobile operators would have made connectivity accessible to all.

That hasn't happened. Is it because people don't want or need a continuous Internet connection when they're mobile? No, I don't think that's true - if 3G were ubiquitous then we'd all just connect and make the most ...

So the satellite is hooked up.

And I'm totally loving it.

Yes, it's every bit as slow for browsing etc as you can possibly imagine, but the extra bandwidth means I can do all of these super exciting things that I just couldn't before. Like streaming a video. Or, god forbid, downloading a software update!

It's sad that satellite is so horribly crippled by latency and cost, because it's otherwise a pretty great way of dropping a fixed internet connection ...

The iPad doesn't have enough RAM.

What's the damage, 256MB? Damage being the operative word. My Safari on the Mac will happily chunk off a gig given a few tabs, clearly such a paltry amount of RAM for the whole device isn't going to cut it.

The result? When you've got multiple pages open and you're switching between them they keep refreshing. Now, all you hateful creatures on your 20mbps ADSL or even faster noodle optics from Virgin probably care very little about ...

In as little as 10 days my tweets could be travelling 44,472 miles in order to reach you.

Ding ding ding! You're absolutely right! For the first time in 6 years I'm going to be back on satellite bloody broadband!

Lets look at the options:
- ADSL: 256k. Technically it's more like 200k down and 300k up, a bit of a puzzle! There are days when I think I could live with it and hope that something better comes along. Then it goes down for several hours. Oh, and the ...