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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • no Internet companies are capable of 46gbs.

    IDGAF about the pixel phones but i see this kind of argument all over the place and it’s infuriating. ISPs don’t have to offer 46gbps for wifi6 to be your bottleneck. Imagine having 2gbps internet, talking about how you need to upgrade away from gigabit, and someone goes “well you don’t need 10gigabit(or 2.5 or 5), your ISP isn’t giving you 10gbps.” Sure it isn’t, but it’s still offering more than my current network can enable

    Not to mention, wifi never, ever, ever hits advertised speeds. I have wifi 6 and it is a bottleneck on my 2gbps internet with a single device. Imagine having multiple devices!

    And even if your internet wasn’t bottlenecked by your wifi, the internet isn’t the only thing your phone can communicate with on a network.


  • To use the full WiFi bandwidth you’d probably also need to connect your phones antennae to the access points antennae via coax.

    Nobody’s ever going to get 46Gb/s with 7 just like nobody actually gets 1gigabit with AC. Real speeds tend to be vastly lower than rated, and splitting the airwaves with other stations is reason enough to minimize transmit time in any case. A busy area is going to benefit from phones having Wi-Fi 7 even if those phones can’t process a 46gbps tcp stream.

    It really annoys me when people look at max rates of networking technologies as though they’re minimums for that technology to be useful. You don’t have to use all 10gigabits of 10gbps for the upgrade from gigabit to be worthwhile, same with all others.





  • Depends massively on where you are. Out in a really rural area, you’ll probably get one a year tops. Middle class suburbia, but not a gated community? Probably substantially more, like 1+ a week.

    I’m in the suburbs but up a couple of hills so I generally get fewer than 1 a month (that I know of. I have my doorbell disconnected and live with others so it’s possible I get more and just don’t know about it)





  • Exactly the same here. Did I somehow click something behind the camera, causing my moron to run directly at the giant enemy crab I just managed to carefully avoid? Yeah I’ll reload.

    Same if it’s a dialogue option I (or the NPC I’m talking to) clearly misunderstood. In tabletop or real life it could be cleared up by “no, party member, I only told the bad guy I’d help him as a lie” even if it added a persuasion or deception check. In game, there’s just no dialogue option to say “sorry, i didn’t mean it that way” in most situations. See also: accidentally romancing the wrong person as many players apparently do