Making WiFi fast

Dave Täht has been working to save the Internet for the last six years (at least). Recently, his focus has been on improving the performance of networking over WiFi — performance that has been disappointing for as long as anybody can remember. The good news, as related in his 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference talk, is that WiFi can be fixed, and the fixes aren't even all that hard to do. Users with the right hardware and a willingness to run experimental software can have fast WiFi now, and it should be available for the rest of us before too long.

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