Deficient WiFi Awareness Sign

Posted: April 4th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

These signs announcing a deficient/poor WiFi connectivity are at the entrance of the 2 rooms I am TAing this semester.

Wifi Deficient Wifi Deficient2

Relation to my thesis: can’t get more explicit than that! My current workplace is a great inspiration for my work on ubicomp and uncertainty. Weekly fixed network failures (lousy dynamic IP assignment after 11am), uncertain WiFi connectivity (not due so much to a bad wireless coverage, but rather to poor security settings and congested routers). Note that similar failures happened in my previous workplace, with a buggy “corporate” VPN application that needed a once in a while “sudo” command to get back on track (if you did not know the magic command, an uninstall/install was the way to go). Wireless connectivity is not binary (on/off) and is not always related to coverage.

One Comment on “Deficient WiFi Awareness Sign”

  1. 1 Invisible Yet Necessary » Wi-Fi limitations and the high expectations of San Francisco citywide coverage said at 8:51 am on April 6th, 2006:

    [...] ty. While this is not totally unusual, the fact that his university displays what he calls Deficient WiFi Awareness Sign is quite significant. It is much more [...]