You are mistaken. There is _very_ little clearance between the screen and the dock (look inside where there are rails on either side that are very close to the screen). So little in fact that some people with glass screen protectors report that it makes it “snug” in the dock because the clearance is so small.

My dock has no rubber bits if any kind. Right out of the box its hard plastic against the screen.

Be _very_ careful with those pads, because they will collect dust over time and then absolutely scratch your screen worse than the dock would have.

If stock were readily available this would be good advice, but they are not, so that “free” replacement may take weeks to months to arrive.

This means nothing. Its just a canned PR response. What did you expect them to say: “Oh, damn, our bad. We designed the hardware poorly.” No company is going to do that. They are going to downplay it as much as possible.

I wasnt intending to be condescending, you have drawn false conclusions from my posts (like thinking I was talking about basements, or running wire down from the attic) so I attempted to clarify to avoid further miscommunication.

I am not talking about basements, that would have made it so much easier, I am talking about the crawlspace, just a 2-3 foot space under a house that is typically accessed from an exterior “door”. All houses have them to some extent, but some are nicer to crawl in than others.

Well for the easiest method, you dont need to go through the wall. You can pull back the baseboard and drill down at a slight angle, and then attach a wall mounted box similar to http://www.showmecables.com/product/RJ45-Modular-Surface-Mount-Jack-White.aspx

So was I. Running the wires is trivial, a monkey could do it in an hour. Find the spot in the wall that you want the port to be, drill up from under the house into that spot (the better crawl space you have, the easier this is), and push the wire through. Its child’s play. (If you have a second person with you…

That solution “works”, yes, but you are going to add more problems than it solves. You are not avoiding all of the pitfalls of WiFi, you still get those, plus whatever other nuances you have to deal with because of the man in the middle.

I looked into those, do you happen to know what loss there is? For example, WiFi generally loses 25% or more of your speed/signal vs wired (its more like 50% in my house), have you done speed tests in a room across the house with the power line adapters vs something wired directly to the router? I would be very…

Its not magic. It was not very hard at all. Most of the time was spent learning that when you put the ends on the cables, you CANNOT untwist “just a little bit” of the twisted pairs leading to the end. I had a lot of trial and error until I did a little googling and figured out what I did wrong.

I put an “intake” port near my router, I plug into that, and then it goes to a hub in my utility closet. From there it goes into every room (some rooms have two runs)

You need a $15 tool. The problem isn’t the tool, the problem is that if you untwist even a tiny amount of the wire before the head, it won’t work, or won’t work well. I learned this the hard way.

Wired is the way to go. Its not that difficult (or costly) to wire your entire house (let alone a single room) as long as you have permissions or own the house.

Wireless, even in the best setups, will lose you a good portion of your network performance to things like error correction and packet loss. The Playstation (3 and 4) for some reason add another (huge) drop on top of that. I consistently get about 25% of the speed over PS4/PS3 WiFi that I get wired on the same…

I just took the faster/cleaner route and wired every room in my house, so there is a wired network port in every room (two in some). It took a bit of work (maybe a couple hours, and thats just because I was not very experienced in putting ends on network cables). My consoles are all within a couple feet of a network…

One? Thats a bit of an understatement. There are hundreds of independent reports from very reliable sources, and hundreds of independent YouTube videos showing off their scratch screens, that all coincidently have scratches right where the dock touches the screen. Thats hardly “one unconfirmed report”

For the sake of argument lets say that the scratching is an uncommon issue. The device is almost impossible to get right now, which means its also nearly impossible to get a replacement unit if you have a “defective” one. This warrants being EXTREMELY cautious, and EXTREMELY worried about it happening.

I disagree with the concept that the game industry is healthier with more competitors. I think its much worse off, and the more competitors, the worse it is. Too many people just fall back on the old litany “Competition is good! Choice is good!” without ever actually thinking of the consequences of that.