We moved all the media equipment to the basement last weekend, and it’s very nice to spend time in. Unfortunately, I was clearing out old coax and phone cables in the basement (a rat’s nest left by the previous owner; I must have pulled 100 yards of wire out)… and I cut our main phone/DSL line. And I don’t know which one it was.
So, at home, we have to freeload on a neighbor’s wireless (which means we lose access to our own network assets while doing so), and we have no phone (but we use our cells most of the time anyway).
The service tech isn’t coming out until tomorrow afternoon. It’s amazing how dependent we are on this technology now. It really cramps our style to not be connected. In addition to that, home networking may be “easier” these days, but it certainly isn’t reliable. We’ve had trouble with the drivers and connections with our HP printers as well as our Airport Express stereo connections.
I’m in no way an early adopter, but I am “early majority” when it comes to tech… when it’s useful and cheap enough, I jump on board. Unfortunately, this still causes headaches. Home networks should not require live-in tech support… it should just work. And today, it doesn’t. I can’t wait ’til all of this is ubiquitous and as easy to use as a 1980’s remote control. Some days, I feel like becoming a luddite and returning to non-convergence technology.
Ugh.
