Originally Posted by
Cornish Jack
It seems (to me) quite extraordinary that a PC function which, nowadays, is almost totally essential, continues to be presented in a form which is almost unintelligible to non-geeks, As to fault finding, as I now know, the process requires a familiarity with PC gobbledegook which exceeds anything I have gained from some 20 years of building, using and swearing at the things. Methinks there is a little fortune to be made by the first person to write an automatic check and fix program(me). .. or the manufacturer of a fool-proof system!!
There are two alternatives:
1) Learn more about IT
2) Pay people like myself who have spent decades designing, refining, and productionising systems such as wifi to figure it out for you
If you're unwilling to do one of these, then you need to do the other. Why as a software writer would I cut off my livelihood simply because you unreasonably want things to be 100% reliable?
Wifi problems, such as the channel 13 issue above, are the result of governments (specifically the US Govt) reserving a chunk of the radio spectrum for their military and banning wifi manufacturers from using it. It's not a problem created by us "IT geeks" yet you want to sit back and demand a noddy system? It'll be a long time coming.