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Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Re: Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Post by dtech »

tucosan wrote: post #10
Hikikomori wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Price?

If you don't need the pinouts, it's likely cheaper to get a used thin client or a N100 based machine. You'd get similar power draw, plus a case and a PSU.

It doesn't seem even close. Rasberry Pi 4 starts at €40 or so, while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180.

Re: Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Post by aba_cz »

I've seen/fixed similar issue in someone else's Windows 10 notebook few days ago. It seems to have been caused by wifi having the same ssid for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and not-that-great signal so OS was for some reason "constantly" switching between those two. After forcing it to use just 5 GHz it went from 1 Mbps to 100 Mbps. Reading this sooner would have prevented my headache.

Re: Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Post by Citizen_Lame »

dtech wrote: post #12
tucosan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't need the pinouts, it's likely cheaper to get a used thin client or a N100 based machine. You'd get similar power draw, plus a case and a PSU.

It doesn't seem even close. Rasberry Pi 4 starts at €40 or so, while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180.

Raspberry Pi 4 cannot be compared to N100. It's miles behind.

Re: Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Post by echoangle »

dtech wrote: post #12
tucosan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't need the pinouts, it's likely cheaper to get a used thin client or a N100 based machine. You'd get similar power draw, plus a case and a PSU.

It doesn't seem even close. Rasberry Pi 4 starts at €40 or so, while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180.

Used thin clients start at 20€, that’s unbeatable (because they include case and PSU, allow SATA Harddrives, replaceable RAM…)

Re: Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Post by nappy-doo »

edarchis wrote: post #7

Cross-compiling ? Aren't M1 and Pi both ARM processors ? I've been building apps for my M1 to run on Pi without any issue. Some optimization options maybe ?

Cross compiling is really defined as different platforms, not limiting it to instruction sets. Also, the M1 is an ARM, but the instruction sets aren't exactly the same.

Re: Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again

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Post by oarsinsync »

dtech wrote: post #12
tucosan wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't need the pinouts, it's likely cheaper to get a used thin client or a N100 based machine. You'd get similar power draw, plus a case and a PSU.

It doesn't seem even close. Rasberry Pi 4 starts at €40 or so, while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180.

> while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180

Check AliExpress. Much cheaper for N100s.

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