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Your wifi will never get any better. There is a limited amount of spectrum, and practically no one is aware that the channel bonding required to get higher band
by nicoffeine 6y ago
Your wifi will never get any better. There is a limited amount of spectrum, and practically no one is aware that the channel bonding required to get higher bandwidth means there are just a few distinct channels even in 5GHz. So everyone keeps bonding channels, turning up the power, even though the best solution is for everyone to use 20Mhz slices at the lowest power possible. Then you add channel hopping and mesh networks soaking up even more lanes for intercommunication and here we are.
It's a great example of the tragedy of the commons.
The only hope for dense areas is transmitting in frequencies that don't go through walls and hard wiring each room with something close to line of sight radios integrated into light fixtures, but I'm not sure they've figured out the wiring for that.
Meanwhile my $10 CAT5e cable continues to chug along...
- dboreham 6y agoSo true. Shannon seems to get lost in the noise (sic).