Sure, to fix your one problem that small amount of documentation would do it
and when you start building devices, you can handle it, but the process of
actually integrating a bunch of hardware with many MB of operating system
code means that trying to specify at a low-level everything that will happen
in every situation is impossible.
If it doesn't drop the WiFi connection it *is* less-secure. That's just the
way it is. It's not the right thing for your one situation, but that
doesn't mean that there's no security issue. As for "security have to be
provided by means of warnings and options" is clearly not the case. The
most-secure device is one that does the right thing and does *not* allow the
user to choose to run that email attachment or allow that ActiveX control on
the Web site. An option to allow it is the friendliest way to do it,
certainly, which is no doubt why it's been changed in later versions.
Well, the gateway components are not in the average PDA (and that scenario
is exactly what the security measure is trying to prevent, in the other
direction, by the way). In fact, all traffic from the PDA to the "Internet"
will go through ActiveSync, if it's connected, not the other way. You might
be able to find some way to get something to work, but you'd be much better
off just buying a cheap wireless card for the PC. Here's one:
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...ct_code=344140
Your scenario was not contemplated for ActiveSync and, even if you can sort
of get it to work, it's not going to be 'right'.
Paul T.
"John" <> wrote in message
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>> No one is going to document every behavior that the operating
>> system has (it would be thousands of pages).
>
> What thousands of pages? One message box or a notification popup
> with one line of explanation and "don't show it again"
> check box would be sufficient.
> Otherwise there were no way to find what happened,
> so I wasted the whole day,
> bothered innocent people at HP and my router vendor
> thinking that dropped connection was their problem.
>
>> but security-wise, it makes sense to do this.
>
> Not in my case. Anyway, security have to be provided
> by means of warnings and options, rather that brute denial of service.
>
>> *Why* do you need to have ActiveSync and WiFi connected at the
>> same time?
>
> Well, there are two reasons.
> First, I don't have separate chargers, so I always have all my PDAs
> connected through USB, so they charge and I use them at the same time.
>
> Second, my PC does not have WiFi, so I hoped to connect PC to WiFi
> through the PDA. I know it is not supported out of the box,
> but I saw some posts, that it may be possible to setup proxy
> servers on the PDA and browse the Web and check E-Mails that way.
>
> Thank you
> John