Missed opportunity to call it a "$350 e-waste spider"

Wifi? You may as well believe in magic. Buy a box of cable and one of these!

No testers - raw dog it. Party like a Quake party in 1999.

WiFi has its problems but they don't include a tiny plastic tab costing $0.002 that inevitably breaks off, making the physical connection susceptible to fail at the tiniest touch of a butterfly's wing

The router hit end of service 6 months ago and has an open exploit.

$3 for CAT cable is not realistic but you still have my upvote

The snaky boy is more than $3 these days, at least if you get a long one.

The router is useless-ish without the $3 snakey boi.

“Ish?” Because you could set it up as a Wireless repeater?

I've grown to hate these routers. They only seem useful if you live in an apartment and place them in the middle and your walls are made of paper. Bought a few through the years thinking more money = better wifi, but wall construction and placement have much more impact. Living in a brick house, they're pretty shit. I've switched to non gamified wifi AP's connected to ethernet and the wifi's been great. Still prioritize wired wherever possible though.

I climbed up in the roof crawl space (by no stretch is it an "attic") and ran Cat6 to every room in my house 15 years ago. The living room and two smaller bedrooms got one, and the master bedroom got two.

I'm very happy with the upgrade. I also run WiFi, of course, for phones and tablets, and my kid's Steam Deck, etc.

i love cables, cables are the best thing, give me snakey boy, give me wired headphones, give me wired keyboard and mice

WiFi 6e and 7 are legitimate competitors to standard 1gig Ethernet. Setting up my new WAP I got 1.4gbps down on my phone. And I think my laptop touched 2 at one point.

But Ethernet will always be more consistent.

The Wifi cabal is blocking phones with RJ45 poets.

$350? Since when? My piece of shit was north of $750

Btw, dafaq with router prices? Do they think they sell laptops?

I don't understand. Who thinks these are comparable?

They serve very different purposes.

Wireless data links should be the exclusive domain of temporary, nomadic and/or sacrificial links.

If the channel is permanent, static, or critical; as much of the path as practicable should be provisioned with constrained energy transmission.

More spikes = more internet, duh.