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Looks like it comes with Killer WiFi. Pretty questionable choice there.

by jagger27 6y ago

Ghostt8117 6y ago
My laptop has Killer WiFi. I know nothing about it. Why is that a questionable choice?
- dade_ 6y ago
  My laptop as well, it has the worst wireless connectivity of all of my devices and it just doesn’t come up on book or wake from sleep. I noticed the brand in the spec, but figured it probably didn’t matter. It turns out that it became the thing I hate about the machine, and later found they have a hate club on the Internet. I wouldn’t buy another machine with their wireless. Chip was: Killer Wireless-AC 1535 (802.11ac) I just learned that Intel bought Rivet, maker of Killer wifi: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquisition-may-2020/#gs.9esaz5 https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquisition-may-...
- ajtjp 6y ago
  Killer is often criticized for not adding much to a laptop beyond some extra cost. The benefit Killer touts is prioritizing latency-sensitive traffic, e.g. for games. I haven't used one and can't say how effective they are, but suspect it is true that for most people, the difference wouldn't be perceptible. The software might be more efficient, but it isn't going to make the radio waves travel any quicker. But I haven't heard about reliability issues, and as long as that's the case the worst outcome is paying a couple extra bucks for a fancy WiFi card with no difference/a small enough difference you can't notice it.
bootloop 6y ago
From their website: > We neither develop nor support the Linux drivers for our devices, and this is common, as free and open source is the Linux way. > As such, if you encounter an issue with your Killer Networking adapter in Linux, your best, quickest, and most accurate line of support is going to be the community, either for the Linux distribution that you are using, or the driver itself. Easy way out I guess.
- mnm1 6y ago
  That's interesting. So they don't actually provide any meaningful support at all over a vendor that doesn't officially support Linux. It's just pr bullshit. Here's your laptop with Linux pre-installed, but if you have problems, though shit. Fuck that.
RandomBacon 6y ago
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on this model. I have not had any problems with WiFi.

Looks like it comes with Killer WiFi. Pretty questionable choice there.

Ghostt8117 6y ago

My laptop has Killer WiFi. I know nothing about it. Why is that a questionable choice?

dade_ 6y ago
My laptop as well, it has the worst wireless connectivity of all of my devices and it just doesn’t come up on book or wake from sleep. I noticed the brand in the spec, but figured it probably didn’t matter. It turns out that it became the thing I hate about the machine, and later found they have a hate club on the Internet. I wouldn’t buy another machine with their wireless. Chip was: Killer Wireless-AC 1535 (802.11ac) I just learned that Intel bought Rivet, maker of Killer wifi: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquisition-may-2020/#gs.9esaz5 https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquisition-may-...
ajtjp 6y ago
Killer is often criticized for not adding much to a laptop beyond some extra cost. The benefit Killer touts is prioritizing latency-sensitive traffic, e.g. for games. I haven't used one and can't say how effective they are, but suspect it is true that for most people, the difference wouldn't be perceptible. The software might be more efficient, but it isn't going to make the radio waves travel any quicker. But I haven't heard about reliability issues, and as long as that's the case the worst outcome is paying a couple extra bucks for a fancy WiFi card with no difference/a small enough difference you can't notice it.

bootloop 6y ago

From their website: > We neither develop nor support the Linux drivers for our devices, and this is common, as free and open source is the Linux way. > As such, if you encounter an issue with your Killer Networking adapter in Linux, your best, quickest, and most accurate line of support is going to be the community, either for the Linux distribution that you are using, or the driver itself. Easy way out I guess.

mnm1 6y ago
That's interesting. So they don't actually provide any meaningful support at all over a vendor that doesn't officially support Linux. It's just pr bullshit. Here's your laptop with Linux pre-installed, but if you have problems, though shit. Fuck that.

RandomBacon 6y ago

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on this model. I have not had any problems with WiFi.