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Re:OnHub by wstrange on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @09:17PM (#10083204)
"unnecessarily wasteful energy-wise"

This is just for setup right? So the energy cost is insanely trivial, hardly worth mentioning.

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Re:OnHub by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @03:30AM (#10084102)
I'm making a general point here. In case of this router, one-time expense is indeed hardly worth mentioning. I just dislike the whole trend.
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Re:OnHub by londonsexplorer on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:05AM (#10085977)
The general point is "local direct communication is hard and unreliable". Your phone falls back to 3G - connection broken. You're on "HouseWifi" and the other device is on "HouseWifi_5Ghz" - connection broken. You have a router with a guest mode and stops guests accessing the local LAN - guest can't print or chromecast or whatever.
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