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Re:Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills sec... by mrr54 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @02:45AM (#22090034)
Pretty much every house built in the last 25 years does at least.
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Re:Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills sec... by lallysingh on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:38AM (#22092284)
Not in the houses I've been looking at. Out of dozens I looked sty built within the last 10 years, only 1-2 had it. And the current owners weren't using it.

AFAICT, They're built with the presumption of wifi.

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Re:Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills sec... by mrr54 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:17PM (#22095158)
That's weird. It's not expensive to wire houses, and you can't get gigabit fibre speeds with ethernet. You certainly couldn't get anywhere near it 5-10 years ago, but gigabit fibre was available then.
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Re:Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills sec... by jnicholasp on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:39PM (#22093893)
Not true in my mid-sized city in the Pacific Northwest.
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