Re: Wireless routers
At the end of the day, I believe we can all agree that whatever works is the best solution, and as with all RF scenarios - YMMV.
I have a lot of personal experience deploying WLAN's of different types and was speaking from that. If you have found something that works better for you, that obviously trumps many other things.
Just to go and show how funny this can be sometimes, I personally owned a WNR3500 at home for some time, it had no end of firmware trouble followed by severe rf instability in a congested environment. After awhile I migrated to airports, and then finally ruckus. I don't doubt at all that you had a great experience with the unit, but it nonetheless further highlights the potentialy oddities of RF gear.
At the end of the day I suppose the biggest take-away is to try the stuff yourself and make up your own mind.
As for the wifi thing, it is well documented that the stumbler/scanner apps were accessing a non end-user core API relating to the 802.11 radio. This was always against the rules, but they began to get much pro proactive about enforcing the rules in the beginning of 2010. This was not a targeted at wifi apps in particular, but to a broad range of apps that had incorrectly been allowed into the store at the time.
Regardless of your feelings on Apple's approach to store curation and where the draw the line between system stability and end user freedoms, at least they endevour to enforce their rules across the board.
Karl P
