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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by pdntspa on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:54PM (#38437312)
In a lot of places 2.4ghz is unusable because of the density of networks transmitting in the space. I live in a SFH in a lower-tier metro and only 5ghz is performant
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by filterfiber on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:15PM (#38438410)
Most cheap wifi modules are all 2.4ghz, so printers, iot stuff, etc will almost certainly be 2.4ghz. Like 1$ cheap.

> only 5ghz is performant

Most of these barely need any bandwidth. A printer is possibly on the higher end of bandwidth, but I think the number of printers that support 5GHZ is possibly still single digits.

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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by spookie on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:21PM (#38438506)
Doesn't help that Bluetooth is on the same spectrum
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