• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Most consumers don’t buy their own routers. The only time I’ve helped people buy routers in the last decade is to get one you could install a vpn on. Looking at the wireless standards never crossed our minds.

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      5 months ago

      Fair enough. I thought it was just as common knowledge as wireless cellphone standards. Kinda surprised to see most people on Lemmy don’t pay attention to these, lots of the kinds of people who wouldn’t use the ISP supplied router / AP are here. Or so I thought.

      I don’t know the 802.11 specs at all, but I know enough to purchase a router that won’t be outdated quickly.