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- Where is My Wireless Revolution?
- My Myriad Mess of Wires
It's great to know that USB 3.0 will soon be available along with multiple core processors and other whiz-bang advancements, so why does the area around my computer still look like a rat's nest of wires?
I can't be the only person with this complaint. My PC's power cord is hooked to a power strip, which is hooked to a UPS forming the backbone of wires. My networking cable is hooked to the "wireless" router, which itself is hooked by a thin nasty looking wire to a brick-like power supply, which is wired to the power strip. The wireless router has four additional wires, including the one to the Internet connection, which, in turn has another brick and three more wires hooked to it including the wire coming in from the cable company, which is also wired to a box and yet another power supply. I haven't even gotten to the speakers, keyboard, mouse, printer, tablet and peripherals.
About once every couple of months I disconnect everything and discover rogue wires hiding among the wires actually connected to something. These are wires that were used for some reason or another and then disconnected with the thought in mind that they would eventually be reconnected and never were. Often they were never reconnected because it was impossible to find them. So they just build up, tangling within the maz of the other wires.
Many of the rogue wires are actually idiotic variations of the USB connectors. I must have at least six normal variations that I need for one thing or another. USB is USB, so why do we have so many variations? There should be two USB cables. There should be the original giant USB connector with the big rectangular universal connector on one end and the big square connector on the other. Then all the manufacturers should pick one and only one mini USB design. I don't even care which one; just pick one! The only reason for the variations is because these comanies must think it's funny. I can't see that these various connectors are any cheaper or better than each other.
These various USB wires get tangled in the mess, and when you need one of the oddball ones for some stupid device that uses it you have to look all over for the thing. If they color-coded the wire (red, green, blue?) that would at least help. How about yellow so the cable screams out, "Hey! Here is your weird USB cable you can never find!" That would help.—Next: My Myriad Mess of Wires >