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Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?Posted Jul 5, 2012 23:51 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers? by apoelstra Parent article: Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?
> I would expect there to be no difference for 99.9% of people, since most don't transfer massive files around, and those who do, probably do it infrequently enough that they can go through the hassle of plugging in a wire. (I'm a fairly tech-savvy guy, and I fall into the latter category, for example.)
Many people want to stream 1080p videos to all TVs in the house without having to rewire the house. > Also, I'd be surprised to see more than a dozen AP's in a typical suburban location, so while 2.4GHz may be congested in general, by the pigeon-hole principle, you can probably find an empty channel. Suburban, yes; urban, three to four dozen APs at any time. > In my experience, people who buy expensive consumer routers are the same ones who buy computers with 8Gb of RAM, and use it to browse the Internet. In both cases, there will be no performance gain from the better hardware, but there would be a big performance gain from using Free Software. Yes. I agree.
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