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I thought my internet connection was super horrible bc my wifi was so slow but then I finally bought a new router and was like oh, huh, how about that Turns out that even if your old router was originally sold as being capable of 300Mbps or whatever, it might not actually be able to sustain that for any length of time when multiple devices are connected bc the chipset is from 2007 and the software stack is garbage and it overheats and throttles back I got a tp-link Archer c8 for under a hundo I think and it sustains at least 150Mbps to any number of devices it's connected to
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My Linux Rig posted:lol at the whole concept of WiFi/cellular signals causing cancer tbf the ubiquity of cell phones and wifi radios and the like is one of the biggest uncontrolled experiments in human history like it's better than 99% sure that there's no problem, but we've gone ahead and raised a generation to carry portable microwave transmitters with them at all times and bathed our environments in the same energy and we've got no control sample i'm reminded of the era just after nuclear testing in the 1950s -- the AEC used to trace fallout patterns by measuring the propagation of strontium-90, since it was known to be a fission product but after a decade or so they found that it was impossible to find a sample of earth that didn't have 90Sr in it, so they shrugged and quit testing, because it had become ubiquitous, the new background level woops
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Stereotype posted:yeah but counterpoint there are like 7.4B people now so it didn’t really hurt much. yet a good point of comparison would be the ubiquity of electric lighting. is it bad for you? not on any sort of serious scale, no. does it alter your biochemistry and your behavior in a way that is difficult or impossible to avoid? absolutely and fundamentally
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not just "scavenge" but "raise sunken battleships so that they can carve up their hulls"
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Jan 2, 2018 21:52
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i helped my friend set up the wifi in his new apartment and the drat router turned on four separate networks when i powered it up (5ghz, 2.4ghz, 5ghz_guest, 2.4ghz_guest) gee i wonder if this kind of poo poo is why the spectrum graph around here looks like michael j. fox trying to ketchup a burger
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