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Dell and othrs have long added "value" to their boxes by installing wifi as standard. Most router/modem makers also install wifi as standard.

Why?

It doesn't bloody work; don't they get it? They are making us pay for something that has no functional reliability and hence no value.

Nobody lving in any sort of modern construction with concrete slab floors and/or supporting walls can use wifi unless their system and the router are in the same room. In which case they might just as well plug it it. They need to know this before they spend days trying to install a wifi network.

They don't bloody work.
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... and jurisdictions  burkhartmic | 08/12/07
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It's all about signal proximity...  MGP2 | 08/10/07
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How does that come?  MGP2 | 08/13/07
Heres a little more to read  adelacuesta | 02/18/09
I second that.  Mitch 74 | 08/10/07
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I Disagree - Just Imagine How Life Was When There Was No WiFi  kwokyinchan@... | 08/10/07
my opinion  Barb2c4u@... | 08/10/07
Your conclusions are right on  another ken | 08/10/07
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Exactly...  GekiritZ | 08/15/07
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