choddo
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Because they don't know much?Why don’t you heed the advice given and see how you get on. Why wouldn’t they be right?
Because they don't know much?Why don’t you heed the advice given and see how you get on. Why wouldn’t they be right?
Erm - Windows 1.0 1985Plus Linux is older than Windows
Yeah the Q box will use ethernet to the router if it's there (you have to tell it to in the network setup, after all), but the minis will continue to use wifi if they can, even if they have a cable plugged in and need to have wifi disabled to force them to co-operate. It's ridiculous really.No. Just setup main q as an Ethernet connection and hey presto
You may test Linux and Android but you certainly don’t know much about computer history. Linux first released in 1991 Windows 1.0 first released in 1985. Now if you are talking about operating systems like minix or unix then fair enough but Linux is just a subset of the unix world and a relative newcomer at that.Wired networking and wireless networking are simply the physical layer and to the upper parts of a system they look the same.
Wired network is much simpler because networks are not aware of each other but wireless networks have to be aware of overlapping wireless which makes life more difficult.
Plus Linux is older than Windows, much better established. Even Android runs on it with it's own upper layers.
I should know, I test Android and Linux based products.
Recently we had an issue with a wireless mesh setup and think we have it fixed but there are too many variations in conditions to be absolutely certain.
Ethernet (the wired connection) is plug and go.
Naturally a Sky installer is under pressure to get things done and customers don't want cables.
There's no modem in the Q box, so it can't be terrible.My Q box is wifi never had a problem apart from stupidly slow downloads, i am on Virgin with 108 download, my phone downloaded 1.9gb over wifi in less than 2 mins, the Q take 4 hours to download a 3gb film
My friend has his hardwired and it took the same time, i think the modem in the Q boxes is terrible, either that or Sky throttle it back on purpose.