wireless connectivity 2

so after a lot of thinking about it.... both laptops now connect. they connect at about 38-43kps and have trouble initially connecting every time. i think its that the router is new. it was a gift. it is a 802.11n and the cards are 802.11b/g so the frequencies don't exactly match. the router is supposed to send out a broad range signal to communicate with b/g/n simultaneously, but i think the laptops sense the extended frequency as noise or interference and have difficulty aquiring initial contact. the router claims to be perfectly compatible with all 802.11 technology, but so far, it only gets along well with my Wii. plus, i've had these machines hooked up to an ancient but very reliable linksys router after the last wireless router died. its wired router is 8 yrs old and never dies or gives any probles and connects at 100k every time, so this slow ass old wireless card just doesn't cut it any more. web pages just keep getting bigger, and we all got so used to being plugged in that we are too impatient to wait. so it seems wireless just won't do here. we're not going to upgrade the cards when we can use the ancient router with just as much if not more effiency. so now i'm pluged into the new router, and have put the old one back in its original packaging, to be pulled out again when this one dies in 18 months as all our wireless routers have.

the older i get, the more finiky about wireless technology. the interference is high, the signal strength is high, and that all translates to another kind of air polution. not to mention that i have serious issues with american design and marketing philosophy. just because moore's law is in effect, doesn't mean we have to purchase at the same rate, nor that product life cycles should also operate at the same rate. it seems cheap, and lazy to me. even worse, it produces more junk than our lazy culture can recycle, or would ever even think to. quality implies longevity and consistency, something that isn't seen very often any more, especially in american made products.

on an entirely different rant, i just finished working my second shift from home and have decided that the program i work on could have been better designed by a blind monkey. it is as far from user friendly as unix, but also has no supporting documentation available for the user. you either know what to do, or guess. the training for this program focused on customer service. i can be as polite and apologetic as is physically possible for me, and still preform insanely substandardly by company desires. i know i'm not stupid, but i just can't handle this level complexity with no training, no live call examples, and a jump right in attitude. i kind of want to call and bitch a lot at someone, but who?