"MM" wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:05:12 -0000, "Clive George"
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"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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On 06/01/2010 12:53, Clive George wrote:

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See above about commercial reasons. It's cheaper and easier for them to
just
supply one sort of router. If you want to pay extra for wired, you're
fully
at liberty to.

You don't work for some "we only support Windows" IT Dept, do you?

I don't work for an ISP, no. But I've got an idea about commercial
reality.

As it happens, I do work in the IT dept of a company with a policy of
windows-only on the desktop, and don't really have a problem with that
policy. Servers is a different matter, and I've had quite a lot to do with
encouragement towards non-windows there.

And mine and friends laptops seem to work fine with wireless and linux.


My Ubuntu rack runs fine with wired, talks to Windows on the other
box. What's the problem? Why make things difficult when they can be
easy?

Um, I'm not the one trying to make things difficult. Wireless isn't
difficult. Remember, you're the one not using it - I'm using it entirely
happily.