.. wrote:

You seem to be assuming that one gets to choose and specify the kit.


that's quite an assumption you've made there.

Well hardly, you did say "all of which can be avoided by doing proper
research beforehand and RTFM/STFW once the correct purchase has been
made.", which does seem to presuppose that one gets a look in beforehand.

both have signed up to talktalk from carphone warehouse (?) and neither
of them have thought about a router firewall despite me telling them both
that they would need one and that talktalk were rubbish.

I find you can really upset them by pointing out "but it is free!"[1]
when they are going through the hell of trying to get TalkTalk to
provide any service at all, or trying to get a MAC code out of them when
they can't ;-)

[1] The phrase that I often hear in response to my warnings about the
likely problems... still you get what you pay for.

these days ? not as much as I used to do (daily, for several years) but
enough to realise that pointing out the negatives of a technology doesn't
negate the benefits of it.

Indeed it does not. I don't think I was pointing out just the negatives,
more highlighting the areas in which wired solutions have advantages.


--
Cheers,

John.

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