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Connectivity while travelling is getting worse, not better.

Posted on May 19, 2008

When I got my first laptop in 1993 it was an immensely liberating experience. A Compaq 386sx machine, running Windows for Workgroups, it enabled me to be productive literally anywhere. With a synchronized copy of my inbox on the hard disk, I would plow through hundreds of emails while on planes, in airports, at conferences. And periodically, I d connect to the network (56k dial-up!) and send all that good stuff.Getting work done while mobile has become a much tougher proposition in the last 12 months. It should be easier, but it s not. Why?Network connectivity is lumpy. In some...

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