I was asked today by an online friend if they should think about going wireless. I asked them why and they replied “because it’s a mess”. Of course I ask what is a mess. Then they tell me, their home. I get it now. There are too many wires and HDMI cables all over the place that she can’t move.

This can be a problem of a home based business. Designers need to be aware of this because not only will you have to be the one to solve the problem for your clients, if you work from home you will have to watch out for this yourself. I love wireless, but there are issues that happen when going totally wireless. Things work on the same frequency and if your neighbor has wireless it could mess with your stuff.

Example, my mother has wireless Internet, phones and the satellite can be set up with a wireless connection to the phone. Well because most things out here in the middle of no where are wireless our neighbors Internet or satellite was messing with our cable. We got some interesting programming from pay per view. The weird thing is it was always ordered during our dinner time. So we knew it wasn’t us ordering it. That bill ran up to about $200 just for those movies.

So yes wireless is great for good interior design, it helps you to move things around more and make life easier, but when using wireless you have to think about the world around you and what others are doing, not just to avoid charges on your satellite, but to keep people from steeling your stuff.

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