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Missed opportunity to call it a "$350 e-waste spider"

WiFi has its problems but they don't include a tiny plastic tab costing $0.002 that inevitably breaks off, making the physical connection susceptible to fail at the tiniest touch of a butterfly's wing

Wifi? You may as well believe in magic. Buy a box of cable and one of these!

No testers - raw dog it. Party like a Quake party in 1999.

The snaky boy is more than $3 these days, at least if you get a long one.

I climbed up in the roof crawl space (by no stretch is it an "attic") and ran Cat6 to every room in my house 15 years ago. The living room and two smaller bedrooms got one, and the master bedroom got two.

I'm very happy with the upgrade. I also run WiFi, of course, for phones and tablets, and my kid's Steam Deck, etc.

$3 for CAT cable is not realistic but you still have my upvote

I've grown to hate these routers. They only seem useful if you live in an apartment and place them in the middle and your walls are made of paper. Bought a few through the years thinking more money = better wifi, but wall construction and placement have much more impact. Living in a brick house, they're pretty shit. I've switched to non gamified wifi AP's connected to ethernet and the wifi's been great. Still prioritize wired wherever possible though.

WiFi 6e and 7 are legitimate competitors to standard 1gig Ethernet. Setting up my new WAP I got 1.4gbps down on my phone. And I think my laptop touched 2 at one point.

But Ethernet will always be more consistent.

The router hit end of service 6 months ago and has an open exploit.

The router is useless-ish without the $3 snakey boi.

“Ish?” Because you could set it up as a Wireless repeater?

The Wifi cabal is blocking phones with RJ45 poets.

$350? Since when? My piece of shit was north of $750

I don't understand. Who thinks these are comparable?

They serve very different purposes.

Btw, dafaq with router prices? Do they think they sell laptops?

More spikes = more internet, duh.

If you want to come to my house and run cable feel free.

It depends on the conditions Cables are always the winner, but I have an off grid cabin that has very poor cell reception. I usually end up getting less than 2 Mbps.

But my parents live about 400 meters away and have FTTH, in the countryside, because of a local cooperative.

I looked for using a fibre but it would cost several hundred dollars to have one that resists outdoor conditions in Quebec for a few years. So I settled for Wi-Fi. I get 10 Mbps with the two repeaters and very basic antenna alignment, which is better than 2.

I'd really like to use a cable but I'm only there a few weeks a year, so this works ok.

Cable may be cheap and easy, running it isn't.

Both a good router and wired where possible