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Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by dragonwriter »

ebf6 wrote: post #68
dragonwriter wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Well then they should have made that more clear. "Usually" generally means that they are exceptions, but they are less common. There's no lack of clarity here, you are just ignoring that word.

Of course I am ignoring the word "Usually". It's not a substantial word. How much is usually? There are always "uncommon exceptions" to some subject (see the implicit flaw with this sentence? That's because I don't use the word "usually". What kind of an argument can I make without the word "usually"?) It disregards a whole field of volunteered hard work to make mesh networking technology accessible by people who don…

> Of course I am ignoring the word "Usually".

Then you are criticizing something other than their actual description.

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by striking »

sp332 wrote: post #38
andrewpe wrote: post #33

Anyone notice they are using their new TLD?

Yeah, I thought they were only using that internally. Well, there used to be an April Fool's page at elgoog.google which was just a mirror-image of the homepage, but that's gone now.

I think you mean http://com.google, which is indeed now just a redirect. I think someone discovered a vulnerability in it.

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by [deleted] »

striking wrote: post #73
sp332 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I thought they were only using that internally. Well, there used to be an April Fool's page at elgoog.google which was just a mirror-image of the homepage, but that's gone now.

I think you mean http://com.google , which is indeed now just a redirect. I think someone discovered a vulnerability in it.

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Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by ebf6 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #71
ebf6 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course I am ignoring the word "Usually". It's not a substantial word. How much is usually? There are always "uncommon exceptions" to some subject (see the implicit flaw with this sentence? That's because I don't use the word "usually". What kind of an argument can I make without the word "usually"?) It disregards a whole field of volunteered hard work to make mesh networking technology accessible by people who don…

> Of course I am ignoring the word "Usually". Then you are criticizing something other than their actual description.

> Then you are criticizing something other than their actual description.

No, I'm criticizing the wording. Perhaps you should ask yourself more questions about the construction of these descriptions and what messages they convey, than merely the definition of the word usually.

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by dragonwriter »

ebf6 wrote: post #75
dragonwriter wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Of course I am ignoring the word "Usually". Then you are criticizing something other than their actual description.

> Then you are criticizing something other than their actual description. No, I'm criticizing the wording. Perhaps you should ask yourself more questions about the construction of these descriptions and what messages they convey, than merely the definition of the word usually .

> No, I'm criticizing the wording.

Well, except that you are expressly ignoring a key word in doing that.

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by ryanobjc »

Apreche wrote: post #14

You can tell this product is made by people who live in suburban McMansions. In a 1 BR NYC apartment, you have no problems with wifi coverage.

I live in a small house in SF, and I have wifi problems. Plaster and lathe sure adsorbs all that wifi signal.

Such a weird and negative comment. Are you alright? I mean, such negativity surely has got to come from somewhere?

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by throw7 »

I'm a little concerned that an android device is listed as _required_... i would hope all functions of the wifi devices can be configured/administrated from the web or just an internal browser pointed to the device(s).

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by eridius »

Animats wrote: post #42

Lots of vendors already offer this. It's pretty standard for commercial WiFi units. It's just slightly more expensive than dumb routers. * Eero: https://eero.com/ * Ubuquiti: https://www.ubnt.com * Cisco: http://www.cisco.com (sized for larger buildings) Does this new Google device come with the Google Fi feature which backhauls all your traffic to Google via a VPN?

For Ubiquiti I'd suggest linking to https://www.amplifi.com instead of ubnt.com. AmpliFi is their mesh networking product aimed at consumers, whereas almost everything on ubnt.com is aimed at enterprise use.

Re: Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

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Post by bsder »

calinet6 wrote: post #52
xahrepap wrote: post #8

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I had nothing but problems with typical consumer hardware. Having to restart routers all the time. Dead spots. When family would visit (both my wife and I have large families) they would connect at least 2 devices each to my wifi (tablet, phone, laptop, etc). My wireless would just tank. They would always ask me why my internet was so terrible. Last year I bought an Edge router and a higher end Netgear hotspot. Works…

I could be lighting a fire by saying this, but I've been using AirPorts for 5 years and haven't had a single issue. Is the issue just that the non-Apple-customer market didn't have a good analogue?

> I've been using AirPorts for 5 years and haven't had a single issue.

And I've had Airports that just dropped things--all the time, randomly.

The Airports were a very mixed bag and would go from being excellent to piles of dogsh*t and back again with software upgrades let alone hardware cycles.

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