The Road Warriors Story
Writing from a Middle Eastern hotel via a wireless network. Except the hotel doesn't have a wireless network.
I've connected via the cable to the wall and clicked on my room number to accept the daily charge. So far very familiar to many ppruners I'm sure except I then disconnected the network cable and plugged a unit the size of a cigarette packet into the wall power socket. The ethernet cable has now gone into a port in it. The printer has been plugged into a usb port on the same wall unit as has a mini jack going to some powered speakers.
The entire crew are now surfing wirelessly from one paid connection, printing wirelessly when they need it and listening to one of my iTunes playlists over the powered speakers.
No-one has entered an IP address or configured anything at all - just entered the name of our company as a password.
That was just over one minute to get everyone on line including the initial cable swaps. With this ease of use in an operation that that so often preoccupies these pages for a one person setup at home is it any wonder that there is now only one remaining PC holdout amongst the crew?
The unit - Airport Express - 129 bucks. The cig packet sized travellers' friend.
Regards
Rob