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The Long Goodbye of Wi-Fi Has Begun
- JohnFen 7y agoBefore saying goodbye to Wi-Fi, we have to have something that could adequately replace it. 5G isn't even close to a suitable replacement, in my opinion, for a whole basket of reasons. Perhaps it could in the narrow case of IoT devices that connect to someone else's server, but that's not a use case that applies to anything that I do or will be doing in the future.
- zeveb 7y agoI suspect that the endgame for the IEEE, the telcos, the government, FAANG &c. is for essentially all devices to be IoT devices connecting to someone else's server, with end-user-constructed and -managed networks to be within rounding error. Centralised providers are easier to control, and the game is all about control.
- JohnFen 7y agoThat could be. I don't know. But I do know that I won't personally install or use any such devices -- the security and reliability downsides are far too severe -- so I'll need to keep WiFi. If for some reason WiFi becomes unavailable and there is no suitable substitute (even if it's one that I build myself), then I'll be back to stringing cables everywhere.
- zeveb 7y agoOh, I’m with you. But I won’t be surprised if it gets increasingly uneconomical to try to own my own technology. Already, phones don’t have Ethernet ports — what will you & I do when they no longer connect to WiFi?