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Are you sick of slow, unreliable Wi-Fi? Jon Honeyball is angry–and demands change now

Jon Honeyball

When are we going to have a new generation of Wi-Fi for the home? The current solutions leave me angry beyond belief. Let’s just look at some of the thinking that they embody. First, the 2.4GHz radio space is fantastically oversubscribed. Try finding free slots: in a block of flats, you’ll be lucky to find anything at all. Things are better in the 5GHz space, but that’s only because few people have moved there so far. Down in the cesspit that is 2.4GHz, there are basically three channels that don’t overlap. Do devices here follow a sensible arrangement, aligning themselves properly? Of course not. Base stations pop up wherever they like. Worse still, some grab extra space to try to get better throughput, ignoring the fact that the channel space is…

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