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Wifi is not a replacement for cellular networks. As more and more people have wifi access points it makes sense to focus on speed and congestion management. Wh
by sschueller 5y ago
Wifi is not a replacement for cellular networks. As more and more people have wifi access points it makes sense to focus on speed and congestion management.
What I would like to see is the ability for wifi devices to relay others without having access to the data. Similar to a mesh network that every device supports and some sort of decentralized management allowing better signal for all devices.
- mschuster91 5y agoWiFi is extremely power-hungry and most devices with WiFi are battery-operated (phones, tablets) - an arbitrary random mesh would only lead to dead batteries in a matter of hours.
- greggsy 5y agoThis is already in place for IOT networks like Thread, but it’s only practical at very low bandwidth and where the routing devices are connected to a power source. I, for one, would not appreciate someone burning through my battery to stream Netflix…