This page has been blanked. WiFiEngineer (talk) 21:03, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, like the inputs below, I am new to WP and was only trying to add what I beleive is legitimate information. I wasnt trying to start an edit war. The first messaage I got back told me my inputs had been rejected automatically and I should re enter them. Next thing I know is I am being accused of an edit war when I am guilty of nothing more than ignorance of WP. What do I need to do to get my edits added? |author=
Kurob60== Discussion relating to: Comparison of Wireless Site Survey Products ==
WiFiEngineer:
I'd just like to explain myself. I didn't see this as an edit war. I saw that you had undone my edits and listed that my changes weren't verified by any references. So, I simply redid my changes and listed references. There wasn't anything malicious in my intent. I thought I was doing what you asked.
I'm actually not trying to hide the fact that I'm the owner of VisiWave. I simply had no idea that being linked to the product made it so I couldn't contribute what I believed to be useful information to WP. And I didn't/don't see anything wrong with listing a reference to a product's website as a valid source. I don't understand how that is different than a reference to a product's user's guide.
Obviously this whole "conflict" is because we differ in our definition of active surveys. To be honest, I hate the terms active and passive surveys. They confuse customers all the time. Unless AirMagnet has ingrained their definitions into their heads already, technical users assume an active survey uses active scanning and a passive survey uses passive scanning. This isn't the case. Most importantly, passive surveys use active scanning (clients send probe requests). It's just confusing. To be honest, that is why I have always chosen to ignore those terms in my product. And why you don't see any references any where to the terms.
I re-read several definitions of active surveys before making my changes yesterday. They usually say that you are associated with an AP, provide performance information, and additional things like packet loss and retransmissions. VisiWave does all of those things, albeit the performance testing is fairly limited (it lists how long it takes to send a small packet of data to the AP). Maybe a footnote saying "limited performance testing"?
I actually tried to go to your "talk" page yesterday first to discuss this, but it looked like your talk page was disabled (now I see I simply didn't know how to add something to it). So I just made the changes and tried to explain my reasoning in the limited space in the change comment.
No hard feelings. We just have a difference of opinion and I have admittedly very limited knowledge of WP.