1. When I have looked into this, it turns out the basic WiFi standard has rules about polling rate (allegedly to save power). Like, the standard is literally so

1. When I have looked into this, it turns out the basic WiFi standard has rules about polling rate (allegedly to save power). Like, the standard is literally something like “poll for a few hundred microseconds every couple seconds”. Macbooks even have special workarounds that decrease the connection time by ~half by mildly abusing the standard.