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Re: Broadband Router Comparisons


From: Rob Seastrom <rs-lists () seastrom com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 08:58:55 -0500


On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:38 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell () hathcock org> wrote:

That's a good troubleshooting technique when the customer is cooperative and technically competent.

... and has ethernet on anything in the house, which is increasingly a bad thing to rely on.  Got an iPad, a smart 
phone, and a MacBook Air (any revision)?  Two of the three have substantially no support for hardwired Ethernet.  The 
third requires an external USB adaptor.  "Go out and buy this $24 gizmo so we can confirm that your $29 router/wireless 
device is indeed crap" is a hard thing to get most people to do.

-r



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