Flutterby™! : wireless musings

Why wireless will take over the world: Yesterday we tried to run the phone cable from the Coyote Grits offices down to the telephone room. After dealing with several fire walls, negotiating with our neighbors ("Yes, all the cables between floors really do go down inside of a wall accessible only from your offices"), and finally coming up against some impassible duct work, we broke down and called a guy who's done this in this building before. In the mean time we went and bought a cordless phone and stashed the base station in the phone room. Since we're also waiting for DSL, I dragged my much maligned Ricochet in and had the office on the net, albeit slowly, which replaced the cable plugged in to the serial port in the bottom of Todd's cell phone. Say what you will about the advantages of monster bandwidth and streaming audio and video and what-have-you, between these experiences and the OmniSky which has become a regular part of my overloaded pockets, I'm far more impressed by 'net anywhere than by fast 'net.