TCP/IP + FireWire in Vista
Aaaaaggghhh!!!!! My house is totally 802.11g. There’s a server, a few desktops, a laptop and even a couple of PDAs around and there’s no way the ball & chain would allow CAT5 tacked to the skirting boards. 54Mbs is the theoretical maximum, but that never happens. Most of the time I just move email and web stuff around, so it’s not a big deal. The only exception is when I’m moving video between my laptop and my desktop. The desktop supports gigabit Ethernet, but the laptop is 10/100 only. Both have FireWire built in (very handy for iPods and pulling video off DV camcorders) and Windows XP supports TCP/IP over the link, so I can use it as a quick and dirty 400Mbs LAN point to point network. At least I could….
I “upgraded” to Vista a couple of months ago and it’s a crock, but it’s not enough of a crock to make me reinstall XP Pro. Today was the first time I wanted to move a serious chunk of data between my laptop and the desktop. I plugged the cable in and nothing happened. Then I remembered that seeing as I formatted and reinstalled the desktop, I’d need to set n IP address, so I went into the network and sharing center in control panel….. The wireless adapter was there, as was the wired NIC, but no sign of the FireWire interface. I knew the FireWire card was set up because my iPod has been connected since the upgrade, so I checked Google to see if anyone else had the same problem. I found this. Microsoft removed the feature because they have “not identified any customer dependency” on this feature. Bastards!
By gary | 3. May 2007 | Software, Technology, Windows | 3 Comments »
yeah,…I know…this really sucks!!!!
Microsoft has done it again….
theyre not only bastards…they’re rich bastards!!!!
adn the want to make more money out of this….
they make it so we have to change our hardware!!!!
go figure!!!???
I hope someone will come out with a solution on this…
I even called them and complian about it…they hanged up the phone in my face!!!!
(assholes)
they will get whats comming to them I’m telling you!!!
mean time we’ll have to go back to slow 10/100mb transfers!!!!
once again…ASSHOLES!!!!!
In the age of YouTube, when AV and Firewire are commonplace, it is a shortsighted and suicidal mistake to leave out full IEEE 1394 support including TCP/IP.
My next computer is going to be a Mac, and the one after that will likely be a Chrome OS machine. I am greatly looking forward to the demise of Microsoft.
@Mike
I can understand Mac OS, but what put Chrome into your head? Chrome is going to be a netbook -type OS with all data stored in the cloud in Google Apps and no local hardware support to speak of.