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Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds? by cm2187 on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:11PM (#10815292)
The limiting factor will become the local wifi network. I still find that real wifi speeds are a fraction of what is advertised and I know very few people who connect their devices with ethernet.
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Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds? by stephen_g on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:06PM (#10816051)
Yeah, wireless standards tend to be advertised as the maximum speed you can get with perfect conditions, but WiFi drops the complexity of the modulation the further you get away from the router and/or the more inteferance you have around.

802.11ac can drop all the way back to 6Mbps under really bad conditions!

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