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Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

that said even with your broadcom chip you may have better luck with a nicer AP

i personally am very fond of ubnt, because they are significantly cheaper than "real" enterprise equipment but almost good.

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/

yo I bought two of these for my parents and they have literally never given them trouble ever. I showed up after a year and it just needed a firmware update

plus the installation process involved pulling cat5 through the attic which meant solid Dad bonding time.

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Jimmy Carter
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shockingly, consumer WiFi gear has terrible thermal management and slowly cooks itself to death

Jimmy Carter
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the solution is to throw out any trash that still uses 2.4 ghz WiFi

Jimmy Carter
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WiFi is terrible because electrical engineers were tasked with developing a networking protocol

Jimmy Carter
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there should be an ‘Enable Status LED’ checkbox somewhere

802.11ax gon’ give it to you

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