You're all missing something here! The suspected Al Queda terrorist said a fellow member was at Microsoft putting these bugs in. Now most Al Queda terrorists aren't intelligent enough to understand the nuances of Visual Basic (much less C++ or Perl). Only one member of Al Queda is capable of doing this:
Bill Mohammad Gates.
Well to be frank you're not the target audience for this device. 3com knows this isn't going to sell well to your average home intranet simply because in most homes, the majority of computers are located in different rooms and this device would only be of marginal use. Their target audiences are businesses that make use of multiple workstations closely situated either via cubicles or shared office space.
For example, three weeks ago we added three cat5 drops in a shared office that was powering three workstations and a network printer on a 4-port hub for a client. The hub was working everything fine, except for the fact that it required a power lead and extra cables and was simply a mess. We had to run those three 50 foot cables through a very messy ceiling filled to the brim with insulation, ductwork, and re-bar.
Now, if this option had been available to us at the time, we could have simply installed it in the wall, then ran patch cables to the workstations and printer, and still had slots for the voice jacks. This would have saved us quite alot of time, energy, and expense, as well as saving our client's money.
It's conceivable in such situations that this could even turn a higher profit for IT companies because they wouldn't be forced to reduce their net gain linearly based on their total expense.
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You're all missing something here! The suspected Al Queda terrorist said a fellow member was at Microsoft putting these bugs in. Now most Al Queda terrorists aren't intelligent enough to understand the nuances of Visual Basic (much less C++ or Perl). Only one member of Al Queda is capable of doing this: Bill Mohammad Gates.
Well to be frank you're not the target audience for this device. 3com knows this isn't going to sell well to your average home intranet simply because in most homes, the majority of computers are located in different rooms and this device would only be of marginal use. Their target audiences are businesses that make use of multiple workstations closely situated either via cubicles or shared office space. For example, three weeks ago we added three cat5 drops in a shared office that was powering three workstations and a network printer on a 4-port hub for a client. The hub was working everything fine, except for the fact that it required a power lead and extra cables and was simply a mess. We had to run those three 50 foot cables through a very messy ceiling filled to the brim with insulation, ductwork, and re-bar. Now, if this option had been available to us at the time, we could have simply installed it in the wall, then ran patch cables to the workstations and printer, and still had slots for the voice jacks. This would have saved us quite alot of time, energy, and expense, as well as saving our client's money. It's conceivable in such situations that this could even turn a higher profit for IT companies because they wouldn't be forced to reduce their net gain linearly based on their total expense.