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Happy with Gen5?
I mean besides those 3 people who spend their whole days hanging out on these boards? Gen4 was solid. It never went out. Gen5 goes out every time it rains - never once did Gen4 go out, even in th...
maratsade wrote:
Gen4 was more consistent for me, but I came late to it -- It may have been glitchy at first too.
It was. Trust me... it was.
BirdDog wrote:
Was, and still is.......at least in my case.Nature of the beast. Any time you use radio waves to replace hardwiring, you're going to increase susceptibility to a lot of things and reliability is going to suffer as a result. Extend that over vastly larger distances, and I'm sure it increases exponentially. Compress the data over the stream: You lose even more potential reliability (e.g., change one bit in a zip file and you might as well toss the whole thing) over the advantage of gaining speed.
This is the thing I feel most people just don't seem to understand, yet they keep comparing it to their local hardwired ISP.
