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802.11b/g :(

• vitally3643 4mo ago
  54Mbps is enough for anyone!
  • joe_mamba 4mo ago
    My powerful Android tablet is limited to 72mbps link due to a quirk with the way the XDA developer implemented wifi support on the lineageos branch of my tablet, meaning the device can't see the region specific 5ghz band of the modem of my ISP is outputting, so it can only connect to the 2,4ghz band of that SSID meaning it's stuck to 72mbps. And despite this, it works ok for what I used it: Brave web browsing, youtube via newpipe, Plex and Jellyfin streaming. Like I'm bummed I don't get the Gigabit and Wifi 6 speeds of the router and my internet plan is theoretically capable of, but somehow 72mbps seems sufficient in most of my use cases of that device so .. yay advanced video codecs I guess!?.
    • moomoo11 4mo ago
      I get like 15-50 mbps down on my iPhone 16 when I'm on 5g... and that's enough to stream music, youtube, use as a hotspot, etc. sometimes if I'm lucky i'll get much higher speeds but I guess being in a city with 100s of thousands of other people within a few miles of me means I have to do with like 40 mbps
    • vel0city 4mo ago
      The biggest negative about having slow clients using older, less efficient wifi generations is they end up making the network slower for everyone else who could be faster on that same channel.
      • joe_mamba 4mo ago
        Yeah I know, but I can't control it.
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• lxgr 4mo ago
  Live a little, allow horribly inefficient delightful retro device clients on a 2.4 GHz channel :) WEP is where I’d personally draw the line, but the N95 fortunately supports WPA.
  • giantrobot 4mo ago
    I set up an isolated network on my LAN with its own WAP to play with my old devices that don't support WPA. I don't leave it on all the time and the network segmentation limits any blast damage. Works well since I have so much old crap with early WiFi.