Thunder64 I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Forget who is behind them, just the fact that they charge subscriptions for certain features that cost them nothing. To hell with that. Reply
User of Computers wow these comments really have their xenophobia turned up to 11. OOoooooOOO cHiNa rOuTeR… yeah okay sure. Reply
das_stig People stop buying consumer rubbish every few years for the latest fads you don't use or see any benefit for. Buy a ex-corporate desktop sff of Ebay or one of the many micro AIO for £100-200, add a few 10G nics depending on your ISP speed, a cheap 10G managed network switch, old router as accesspoint, run Proxmox, OPNsense or WRT VMs, Plex/Jellyfish Server VMs, Bbitrorent VMs etc etc and you have far more capable system that will be more cost effective, perform better and expand as you expand your network and you learn a lot. Reply
txfeinbergs User of Computers said: wow these comments really have their xenophobia turned up to 11. OOoooooOOO cHiNa rOuTeR… yeah okay sure. What xenophobia? Just stating facts i.e. there is a ban on all foreign routers due to Trump. Maybe get your head out of your behind. Reply
User of Computers txfeinbergs said: What xenophobia? Just stating facts i.e. there is a ban on all foreign routers due to Trump. Maybe get your head out of your behind. Suppose I was speaking more to TechieTwo's reply than yours. Apologies. Reply
bill001g Its not like tplink is making the actual wifi chips and unlikely they would even be writing the drivers used by the router OS. More the issue is all the stupid AI features and automatic software update garbage not the wifi itself. Asus has fallen on their face multiple times with security issues in their routers recently. We will see, I suspect wifi8 is more smoke and mirrors to get consumers who think bigger number is better so they must buy it. And of course that means they need to replace all their phones,tablets and laptops to also have wifi8 to be able to use it. What a scam to get people to waste their money. It is a very narrow use case that needs very high bandwidth on a device that is wifi only. Your common uses like watching 4k netflix on a tablet is easily done using even wifi5. Portable devices just do not have the storage to save a lot of data so downloading it faster just mean you hit 100% full faster. Maybe something like a vr headset. I wonder how many poeple are going to run out and replace their expensive vr gear with wifi8 stuff. Reply
USAFRet das_stig said: Buy a ex-corporate desktop sff of Ebay or one of the many micro AIO for £100-200, add a few 10G nics depending on your ISP speed, a cheap 10G managed network switch, old router as accesspoint, run Proxmox, OPNsense or WRT VMs, Plex/Jellyfish Server VMs, Bbitrorent VMs You know how to do that. I know how to do that. The the vast majority of the population, you are speaking Greek, translated from the original Klingon through Sanskrit. Reply
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