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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
They'll need to vastly improve the WiFi performance and reliability for sure if the two I've had are typical and as they were both identical (and defective) I imagine they were. I wasn't happy to use it on 50Mbps and if I've got a predominantly wired network. For WiFi only it would be marginal on 30Mbps imo.
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I think that Wifi is always going to be "one of those things". There are too many variables with it (type and size of building, location of Access Point, number of wireless networks in the area) to reliably offer great wifi at high speeds for a while. I've owned a number of sets of wireless access points over the past decade and they've all been mostly junk compared to what I have now. There's always an assumption that a combined wifi product is the solution for end users but I don't think it always is. It wouldn't work for me, given where my comms kit is located. I wonder when it'll be the norm for consumer access points to support roaming between access points, without brief loss of signal when a wireless device switches between access points (not acceptable when a persistent connection needs to be maintained such as on a wireless VOIP handset), and also for the same devices to support wifi provision on 2.4Ghz and backhaul to other access points on 5.0Ghz (means the additional access points, located around the bulding, only need to be powered rather than also connected to LAN via wired Ethernet).