01-03-2020, 02:02 PM | #46 | |
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We have wifi disabled on the main router because it's got pretty poor placement. We just have a separate wifi access point (connected via cat6 cable to the router) in a more central location for our wifi-only devices. |
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01-03-2020, 10:47 PM | #47 |
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Unless I need to 'restart' the router/modem, I leave it alone. The powerline system I use to avoid wifi can be sensitive to becoming 'disconnected' from the internet, which entails lots of fiddling to get it working again.
I hate wifi just like I dislike mobile phones, which I use only for sending the odd text message. Friends know that my mobile is usually switched off, so contact me by landline if necessary. I'm just very sensitive to radio waves. Maybe I should wear an aluminium hat! |
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01-04-2020, 12:44 AM | #48 |
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Curious, is the mobile a smartphone? If so, you could probably use that as a temporary wifi hotspot and then just turn off again once done with downloads.
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01-04-2020, 06:56 AM | #49 |
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The ethernet over domestic power uses radiowaves, not power. It only passes CE & FCC because they don't use data on it, some testers only plug in one unit. The lighting circuits especially radiate. It's been proved by communication engineers, even powering one unit on an isolated generator or UPS 10m (30ft) away. The faster ones interfere with FM Radio, all interfere with Shortwave reception and some interfere with Airband. They've even disrupted DSL when phone wiring has picked up the signal. Most don't transmit if there is no data.
In Double Blind tests there was no ability at all to sense WiFi. Note that Microwave ovens, 3G and DECT use similar frequencies and signals to WiFi. Also the power level at a phone handset transmitting in your hand is hundreds of times to 1000s of times more than a WiFi point or WiFi in a gadget on your desk. On phone masts: Ironically there is LEAST power absolutely under it, than further down the road due to the direction aerials to avoid wasting power into the ground and sky. >|< Mast and beams Electro-sensitivity to RF or 60Hz or 50Hz mains wiring simply doesn't exist. If you stare into a really high power source, such as Radar, you STILL feel nothing, though prolonged exposure may give burns and probably cataracts. Radar is about 10KW pulses and about 800W average. A microwave oven uses the same transmitting device, though usually now Radar uses higher frequencies. That's why a microwave oven is a Faraday cage (metal grill etc on door), two door switches and it cooks things. The enclosure (Faraday cage) ensures less RF than a WiFi point next door leaks out. Lucille Ball claimed she picked up radio stations on her fillings. It was a joke! It's never ever been duplicated. You will feel a tingle from battery cell electricity if you have amalgam or other metal fillings if you put a different bare metal in your mouth, almost all battery cells use two dissimilar conductive materials, (one usually pure metal) and an electrolyte that's acid or alkali. Last edited by Quoth; 01-04-2020 at 07:00 AM. |
01-04-2020, 07:41 AM | #50 | |
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i still reckon many of the older devices are lying around, neglected, with totally drained batteries, that may need some TLC to revive though an avid reader who still uses a 5+ years old kindle seems a strange combination |
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01-04-2020, 10:19 AM | #51 | |
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01-04-2020, 10:38 AM | #52 | |
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I know Jon still speaks fondly of sony e-readers but if I still had mine I'd probably be horrified at the screen resolution, when compared to a current Kindle or Kobo. also, compared to upgrading a smart phone ( & who has 5 year old smart phones) upgrading an e-ink reader is relatively cheap how old is KFX now ? or to rephrase, how many years back do we have to look to find non kfx-capable readers ( as this sub-discussion comes from whether amazon could afford to enforce kfx and drop older formats ) |
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01-04-2020, 11:12 AM | #53 | |
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I doubt that Amazon is going to drop support for older formats. They have done a good job of supporting even the oldest Kindle devices so far. To me the most likely thing they would do, if they change anything, is allow publishers the option of making their newly published books available in KFX format only. That puts the responsibility on the publisher to make the tradeoff between having more secure DRM and supporting the dwindling set of customers using older devices. As an example, expensive textbooks published recently by Pearson are KFX-only, and available only on apps and devices that have secure DRM. |
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01-04-2020, 12:06 PM | #54 |
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Are the Pearson textbooks even real ebooks, or using the PDF like version of KFX, like do they all or many even work on 6" eink at all, or just Fire and some versions of the apps?
In my experience decent mathematics and science texts are not really ebook compatible. Most text books are on iPad, later Android or Fire and 10" or better is needed. What Amazon should do is STOP calling all electronic books they sell "Kindles"! "Kindle" should be be reserved for real totally reflowable ebooks that work on any 4.5" phone via a kindle App and on 6" eink. Essentially they there are two main eink formats that already cover ALL Amazon eink ereaders. At least they mostly removed "Kindle" from the Fire Tablet branding, though that was more so people wouldn't think it's an ereader, it's a general purpose Android Tablet, sort of crippled by default to use only the Amazon store and USB (Sideloaded) content with a Kindle App that has more "features" than a real Kindle. |
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I agree, but have you made that point already , or was it in different thread(s) in other news I saw that print replica magazines are being abandoned ( I forget by who, exactly) that format wins my most stupid e-format of the decade vote so glad to see its going away |
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01-04-2020, 12:36 PM | #56 |
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Google news abandoning print-replica
a) Google/Alphabet abandons stuff often, it has to raise revenue from ads. b) Big 6" + phones, tablets etc and websites mean that many magazines no longer exist or only sell on paper to people not using the Internet for that. I probably did make the point about Amazon and Kindle devaluation as a meaningful description in several threads. Unfortunately Marketing ejits, accountants and lawyers run all these big companies and they interact arrogantly with customers. Surveys are often designed to confirm the bias of a politically important person in the organisation. See also Win10 vs Win7 / XP, or WinME vs Win98, or Apple Mac Pro workstations or connections & notch/curve on phone. Android TV as a GUI, stupid apart from the usage theft. |
01-04-2020, 12:47 PM | #57 |
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Android tv on the right hardware is fine. It is allegedly crap on underpowered Sony TV's but on an Nvidia shield TV streamer it's impressive. And the design that Plex are standardising on for all Client's is very android tv ish. You could say it's a lazy name but it's a TV running Android! What else are you going to call it?
Amazon do seem to have kept the kindle name out of their actual TVs, as well as their streamers and tablets and smart speakers Maybe they like the idea of kindle becoming a generic noun for ebook, like biro or hoover, but I suspect that if you surveyed lots of people asking what is a Kindle, most would say it's a reading device, s not an e book |
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01-04-2020, 01:44 PM | #59 |
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Nothing whatsoever. It's like a claim that an avid driver with a 5+ year old car was inconceivable.
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01-04-2020, 01:46 PM | #60 |
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