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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by sp332 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:59PM (#26265831)
For a network that's already working fine, it's only going to make marginal improvements.

Who's going to spend $230 on a new router for slightly faster lightbulbs?

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by beart on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:59PM (#26266681)
This comment made me laugh. My light bulbs turn on at the speed of electricity right now.
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by hansel_der on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:11PM (#26266845)
thx for pointing that out, you two made my day!
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by Nextgrid on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:16PM (#26270095)
The fact that lightbulbs took seconds to turn on suggests something was very wrong and he's getting much more than marginal improvements.
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by marderfarker2 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:35PM (#26271394)
Most likely due to slow ARP resolution. My custom firmware power switch would take a long time to respond until I turned on gratuitous ARP broadcast.
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