{"id":40751,"date":"2014-01-11T12:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/who-will-ever-possibly-need-more-than-qty-units-in-the-future.html"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:11:41","slug":"who-will-ever-possibly-need-more-than-qty-units-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/who-will-ever-possibly-need-more-than-qty-units-in-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":""Who will ever possibly need more than [QTY] [UNITS] in the future?""},"content":{"rendered":"
"Who will ever possibly need more than [QTY] [UNITS] in the future?"<\/b><\/p>\n

Bill Gates, of course, has a notorious (and possibly spurious https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates#Misattributed<\/a>) quote about nobody ever possibly needing more than 640K\u00a0of RAM. \u00a0Yet today, quite a number of apps on my phone<\/i> take more than that, for program and<\/i> for data each.<\/p>\n

Capability expands to fill resources. \u00a0And for us at home right now, it's something a bit higher tech: WiFi ports.<\/p>\n

We've had a WiFi router for some years now. Even bought a replacement one a year or two back. \u00a0And, like then, it had 6 "wired" ports and 10 "wireless" ports. Obviously, I thought, more than we'd ever possibly need, but I didn't want to go to the next tier down and feel resource constrained.<\/p>\n

You know what's coming.<\/p>\n

We now (as I discovered yesterday) well exceed 10 potential devices, just<\/i> in our household, that use WiFi to talk to each other or the Intertubes.<\/p>\n

– 3 home computers
– 2 work laptops\u00a0
– 1 printer
– 3 Android phones, with 1 work iPhone on its way
– 2 tablets
– 1 Chromecast
– and, now 1 Nest<\/p>\n

Right there are 14 WiFi devices. And I have no doubt that \u00a0a new fridge or sprinker control box or desk lamp is going to\u00a0have some incredibly nifty feature that uses one. And that assumes that no friends or family swing by for the evening or week and want their phone \/ tablet \/ laptop to hook up.<\/p>\n

It's not the bandwidth, just the number of connections. \u00a0And the Netgear router doesn't seem to be handling it all too well. \u00a0We keep having devices temporarily losing connections (more than we probably realize), for one thing. My guess is it's devices knocking the others off, and then getting back on.<\/p>\n

So … maybe it's time to look at a larger router. \u00a0Maybe a 20 port one will do the trick. \u00a0We couldn't possibly ever need more than that …\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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"Who will ever possibly need more than [QTY] [UNITS] in the future?" Bill Gates, of course, has a notorious (and possibly spurious https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates#Misattributed) quote about nobody ever possibly needing more than 640K\u00a0of RAM. \u00a0Yet today, quite a number of apps on my phone take more than that, for program and for data each. 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