why do they do it!!!

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 7th November 2007, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by jimbo110

However, those of us that live in the 21st century would think of an internet/computer application of the phrase rather than a radio application

In the 21st century you can have a radio frequency network device to connect multiple computers together. They call it WiFi. Because instead of using network cables (or wires) they use radio frequency transmitters and receivers, but doesn't it upset the cordless telephone (or wireless telephone which uses radio frequency transceivers) or the wireless Audio Visual distribution box you have connected to the TV (which use radio frequency transceivers.)

The interesting thing is that while they call it wireless technology, there are still wires going from the Wireless access point to the network hub.

Dont get carried away on this new millennium 21st century deal. It is all 20th century technology.

I am happy to accept either radio or wireless as a valid term.

The problem is that the RF spectrum is getting soooooo cluttered with fad technology.

What is worse, I was checking my WiFi router configuration recently and found someone was hyjacking my cable internet connection. (My flat mate turned off the Mac address filtering to connect another fad device.)

Diana

**graceysdad** · 7th November 2007, 12:26 PM

Such excellent wiring technique, must have been a pro!

**GrahamH** · 7th November 2007, 01:52 PM

The word "Wireless" does invoke a certain sense of nostalgia which WiFi lacks completely.

The photo below comes from a series of shots encapsulated in a PowerPoint slide show titled "Telecommunications Cable Practices in Beirut". I use it in my training sessions for Broadcast Techs to relieve the tedium. Clearly this is the antithesis of "Wireless".

(The whole presentation is 220KB so if you wish I could , perhaps, send it to Inc to make available on the "Files Link". The whole thing is very funny but how could anyone work like this?)

**barryj** · 7th November 2007, 03:05 PM

I think it is wireless, especially when no current passes through the wires due to dodgy brothers installation

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**rovercare** · 7th November 2007, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by BigJon

I am only 33 and I am quite happy understanding and using the term wireless to mean radio.

I've just turned 24 and knew what he was on about

Good ol' twitch n tape

**stevo68** · 7th November 2007, 03:29 PM

Just for the record I did know that wireless in this instance was referring to a radio, just moreso it has been a long time since I have heard that term in respect to a radio,

Regards

Stevo

**jik22** · 7th November 2007, 04:17 PM

Haven't heard the term "wireless" to mean radio for years...these days, I'd think 802.11 or WiMAX automatically!

**BigJon** · 7th November 2007, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by jik22

Haven't heard the term "wireless" to mean radio for years...these days, I'd think 802.11 or WiMAX automatically!

I used wireless referring to the radio today. I was on it

, not talking Land Rovers though

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RonMcGr · 7th November 2007, 05:22 PM

Oh boy!

I must be really old.
The term "Wireless" brings to mind an old wooden box with a valve radio in it.
Turn it on, wait for the valves to heat up and sound. No sound, check valves and see which one is dead

Modern radio is "Tansistor"

**cookiesa** · 7th November 2007, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by RonMcGr

Oh boy!

I must be really old.
The term "Wireless" brings to mind an old wooden box with a valve radio in it.
Turn it on, wait for the valves to heat up and sound. No sound, check valves and see which one is dead

Modern radio is "Tansistor"

Saw one of them once....... In a MUSEUM from memory! LOL

I had expected to be reading of IT issue's too, but am well aware of the older use of the term wireless. Sometime around the radiogram wasn't it??? LOL

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