Though wireless LANs promised trouble-free wireless access, the reality still falls short. Security, speed and interoperability still remain problematic
For readers not in their, ahem, late 30s, I Dream of Wires was an ironic little song written by synthesiser pop idol Gary Numan in the early 1980s. In it, an ageing future electrician looks back on...
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