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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by kalleboo on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:01AM (#12366726)
For me it's about being able to ignore the lack of QoS. My wife is streaming an HD movie, our 3 iDevices start downloading some new update that just came out, I'm on Skype and doing research, it's all completely seamless, everything blows ahead at full speed.
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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by yitchelle on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:54PM (#12367532)
Oh I see, even if the link quality is crap. You have the high enough bandwidth to recover.
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