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Worth noting that Ars also reviewed the OnHub While a bit of a sidetrack, that review is horrible. Aside from the unnecessary narrative, the complete hackery o

Worth noting that Ars also reviewed the OnHub While a bit of a sidetrack, that review is horrible. Aside from the unnecessary narrative, the complete hackery of their tests leaves me fondly remembering the old days when tech sites actually did regimented, repeatable, bonafide tests among multiple competitors (the Anandtech gold standard, once even shown by sites like Toms Hardware and even rag PC magazines). Now someone hangs a couple of routers off each other, does some non-descript random test (from the web?) at some cherry picked position, and calls it a day. Maybe this is the result of the ad-supported and then ad-blocking world, but the raw, profound laziness is just too much.

jfb 11y ago
It's also really poorly written. I am hoping that the looming adblockapocalypse just puts some selective pressure on writing, thinking, and editing.
- tgb 11y ago
  You seriously think that's going to help? The entire industry is hemorrhaging like crazy already due to low add revenue. All it means is that they can't afford real reporting and the experienced reporters and editors (if they even have editors) get replaced with recent grads who are wooed in by the old glamour. Buzzfeed might survive adblocks but good luck to anyone that needs real content.
  - jfb 11y ago
    No. I don't. I wish it would, but the theory that a huge collapse in ad revenue that leads to widespread extinction among the bottom-feeders who rush to publish crappy junk -- or simply push someone else's crappy junk out wrapped in a few lines of useless "editorial" -- the theory that this will somehow magically be a return to a golden age of journalism; this theory is almost laughably naïve.
zf00002 11y ago
They don't have a review of the OnHub yet, but http://www.smallnetbuilder.com http://www.smallnetbuilder.com does some pretty good thorough review of consumer router/aps.

jfb 11y ago

It's also really poorly written. I am hoping that the looming adblockapocalypse just puts some selective pressure on writing, thinking, and editing.

tgb 11y ago
You seriously think that's going to help? The entire industry is hemorrhaging like crazy already due to low add revenue. All it means is that they can't afford real reporting and the experienced reporters and editors (if they even have editors) get replaced with recent grads who are wooed in by the old glamour. Buzzfeed might survive adblocks but good luck to anyone that needs real content.
- jfb 11y ago
  No. I don't. I wish it would, but the theory that a huge collapse in ad revenue that leads to widespread extinction among the bottom-feeders who rush to publish crappy junk -- or simply push someone else's crappy junk out wrapped in a few lines of useless "editorial" -- the theory that this will somehow magically be a return to a golden age of journalism; this theory is almost laughably naïve.

zf00002 11y ago

They don't have a review of the OnHub yet, but http://www.smallnetbuilder.com http://www.smallnetbuilder.com does some pretty good thorough review of consumer router/aps.