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Posted by Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] on November 16, 2007, 12:35 pm
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It's more-consistent across different methods of connection. That is, if
they completely removed serial-port sorts of emulation, regardless of
whether you were connecting across GPRS, CPLD, WiFi, or USB, everything
would be network connections, TCP/IP, etc. That, in theory at least,
simplifies things with respect to the connectivity of the device to, say,
Exchange.
Unfortunately, I guess at least, there are so many third-party firewalls,
VPNs, etc., etc., etc. that they stepped out of the frying pan (two types of
connectivity, serial and network, each used in a different situation where
they didn't really have to deal with the worst of either in the other
situation for each), and into the fire.
It's still a mystery to me who, exactly, the ActiveSync/WMDC guys are, who
they work for, and what sort of test situation they live in. It's pretty
clear that it's an ivory tower somewhere, well-separated from the reality
that most users of Windows Mobile devices live in.
Paul T.
> Just one of those idle questions: Why did they decide to "improve" the
> connection method, introducing incompatibilities with VPN's, serial
> devices,
> etc. What was the big advantage that would outweigh all the miserable
> experiences produced?
>
> Jim Beard
>
> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:
>
>> The enhanced network functionality is more-likely. That essentially
>> changes
>> how the device is viewed by the PC when you plug it in. Now, instead of
>> network card, it acts like a serial port. As you might imagine, there
>> are
>> fewer compatibility problems with that.
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>> > Paul,
>> >
>> > Success seems to have been achieved. That is, I've synced while online
>> > wirelessly, and successfully installed ePocrates (the application that
>> > needed
>> > that).
>> >
>> > Naturally, I had performed TWO of the suggested changes (updating the
>> > wireless driver and unchecking the Enhanced networking functionality
>> > box)
>> > before again running ActiveSync 4.5, so I'm not sure which one helped.
>> > But
>> > both seem sound suggestions.
>> >
>> > Many thanks, as I was ready to give up and return the device.
>> >
>> > Jim Beard
>>
>>
>>
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