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I don't like wireless either, for many reasons (the reasons they list there are only some of them; there are more).

• tuatoru 6y ago
  Yah, the main thing he doesn't mention--and in most households, it's the primary thing--is retry hogging by devices that have a poor connection to the access point. High end access points use a time slicing algorithm (tdma-ish) and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) mandates something along those lines. So Wi-Fi will eventually improve a little. But for all the household all-in-one modem-router-switch-accesspoint boxes, one device with a poor connection can hog most of the access point's time, doing re-transmits of corrupted data. If you're video calling over wi-fi, turn off every other device that uses the wi-fi.
  • tuatoru 6y ago
    Forgot to mention: - If you still have problems after switching to wired, it's almost certainly bufferbloat. (Avery Penwarr has a nice writeup about this, getting usable video calling with his parent's low-end ADSL connection.)
  • ksec 6y ago
    >High end access points use a time slicing algorithm (tdma-ish) and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) mandates something along those lines. You will be surprised to learn not every WiFi 6 has support of OFDMA turned on.