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ASUS AC3100 WiFi Gaming Router (RT-AC88U) - Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router, WTFast Game Accelerator, Streaming, AiMesh Compatible, Included Lifetime Internet Security, Adaptive QoS, MU-MIMO

When HN users recommended it

3 HN users recommended this in 2016, in 3 comments.

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What HN users said

darkmighty linked amazon.com View on HN
in The Promise and Confusion of USB Type-C, a direct reply to the story

"Eventually, most of these connections will likely become wireless."

I have my doubts. It takes a lot of effort to enable 10GB/s wireless transmission. The spectrum is physically constrained by bandwidth, noise and interference, and it becomes evident in wireless. While a fairly cheap piece of ethernet cable and router will enable several Gbit/s (up to 400 Gbit/s soon, that's simple impossible in the 2.4Ghz band due to spectrum and current interference situation. So you need to use a less overcrowded, shorter range band with multiple physical antennas of large size, and you get beautiful monstrosities such as this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016EWKQAQ

And the only way up from there (about 10Gbit/s) imo, is to move to other frequencies entirely, and lose many aspects that make wireless convenient, like wall penetration and long range.

So I think wireless isn't a very elegant solution for high bandwidth. What would be ideal I think is that every outlet would have a Type-C port that you could plug your device and get both power and high speed internet.

Keep WiFi and other wireless technologies low power and low bandwidth (actually improving the interference situation), like browsing, reading remote sensors and controlling appliances -- for things/situations that are meant to be remote, wireless.

Note: this was already addressed in some comments here... I'll leave this for my own reference :)

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