Thy LAN has run, it will be fun, on the couch as it is up stairs.

hollow be thy port

Cable's unplugged bro

So Jehovah's witnesses vs Satanic Temple?

If they also crawled around my living room floor I would probably buy two and make them fight each other over AP privileges. May the strongest signal win.

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The AP shaped like a tallboy is a new one for me, actually

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Great if you happen to be or know an electrician, drywall repair expert, and painter. For most of us this isn't very practical though. I do wish that ceiling router ports were standard on new builds at least and if you didn't want to use them you could plug in smoke alarms instead.

Consumer grade has taken a nosedive but it's head and shoulders over what the ISPs give out now.

I had to install a new gateway for my mom the other day, the one supplied by Spectrum. I haven't looked at or touched one of these things in years, I had no idea what they were like now.

I opened the box, set it up, plugged it in, saw that the only information the display gives customers now are the words "Power" and "Online", unplugged it, put it back in the box, and told Mom "I love you too much to let this in your home. I'll buy you a modem."

I didn't even get to the part where apparently you have to use an app to change the password, and the admin panel is not truly accessible anymore.

Or go with Unifi. I’d label them “prosumer” gear.

That's technically "rounded soft box" It's completely round.

Isn't that the Star Wars Imperial shuttle after it's landed?

looks like a manta ray

I love having Google Fiber, they gave me a modem with one open RJ-45 port and said "have fun with the other side of this network".

There are total bypass options now to completely remove their hardware from your network using an ONT that lets you clone the att device serial number. Just a heads up.

Depends on your firmware. You can install FreshTomato firmware on these things and enjoy a much better experience with many more features and higher stability.

Your description makes me want to have a Stargate shaped one, where the status lights are the dialing symbols around the ring.

Short answer no.

Long answer: Mimo designs benefit from different array configurations with known and well placed antenna spacing. So once you hit "good enough" there isn't much of a benefit... But the loosy Goosy any direction antennas above the Xtreme routers... No, not at all

Best guess: each antenna is optimized for a different carrier frequency and splitting traffic between antennae allows the designer to use multiple, lower-cost parts on each data stream rather than a single, higher-cost part that can handle one antenna dealing with all the traffic.

Multiple antennae carrying the same frequency can make a difference, but consumer electronics where the end user has control over the angle of the Antennas likely isn't precise enough to make use of the potential benefits.

If the antennae were very precisely positioned and had very precise phase offset, the full array could be used to have very tight control over polarization...which really doesn't matter in a home wifi environment.

OR! It's just for looks.

Depends if they can be mapped to different channels/frequencies, then it’s possible you get more throughput assuming there isn’t some bottleneck elsewhere. afaik more antennae for the same connection, at essentially the same location, doesn’t make a difference