I tried using our old wireless router last night to set up a wireless bridge for my PS3. When we got that router it was the newest there was and did everything that wireless routers at the time could do. Now though, god knows how many years later, it is too old to put some custom firmware on it to use as a bridge. Technology can be annoying like that, it can either be too new to use all its features or too old to be useful. Finding the right piece of equipment and period of time to us it properly can be a risky proposition at times.
Take our iPad, it was amazing when we first got it and now after two more iterations of the iPad it is still damn good. It can't run all the latest stuff that is available for iPads but does everything we want from it really well. However Apple in their wisdom won't be releasing the newest version of iOS for it when it comes out later this year. Barely two and a half years later and the operating system for it is being obsoleted. Kind of scary when you think about it. Any nice new features that come along we won't get. Not that we would want them from the sounds of it but when you get left behind you start to ask do I need the new stuff? More often we should ask, what stuff do I need then get those and not just get stuff when it first comes out in order to have it.
Another post of random things going on in my mind that I can bore everyone to death with brought to you by my struggle with old hardware and new firmware last night. That and wanting to get a decent internet speed on the PS3 so we can stream more video on it and not take far too long to download stuff from PSN.
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