Making WiFi fast

Making WiFi fast

> there is no need for intelligence in the network hardware

and the wheel turns again. (It's making me think of one or two great posts about this point in general, cpu v.s. offloads, which I can't find rn).

It sounds, though, as if this is almost the opposite of the traditional wheel. The traditional wheel is driven by increased complexity requiring an offload processor to take load off the CPU, followed by bringing that same level of complexity back into the CPU to save money when processing power gets cheaper. In this case, though, the process reduces complexity to the point the offload processor is redundant.

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