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  1. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    You could say the same about throughput testing: it's also different for different clients. Like it or not, different equipment is different; the "stable baseline" here is the same client in the same STA being used for all tests. The fact that the different APs produce different - in some cases...
  2. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    I'm testing both. I'm aware of the ambiguity involved and tried to address it in the article; for example I test roaming using the Intel 7265 rather than the Linksys WUSB-6300 because the former does roam much more readily than the latter. With that said, if the only thing I were testing were...
  3. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    You ought to be able to, emphasis *ought*. Certainly Google Hangouts calls and the like are fine when I roam between APs and bands in my house. That said, I'm not an Apple person except at gunpoint; I've literally never made a Facetime call in my life, and Apple ... well, they frequently...
  4. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    It's possible that that's an effect, but I don't think it's a very significant one - I've seen lower AC speed rated (which basically means fewer MIMO streams) devices kick the teeth out of much higher AC speed rated devices over and over and over again while testing gear for Ars Technica, the...
  5. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    You know what, I think you're right, and I brain-farted their actual description of it - which is DAP-2610 wave 2, referring to its MU-MIMO support. Dunno off the top of my head; but I think the FCC ID on the label is what I went by eventually. Couldn't figure it out from the UI or from the...
  6. Jim Salter

    Is this review dubious?

    About 18 months ago, I tested every NIC I could get my hands on, from old Qualcomm and Centrino 802.11n to Intel 7265 (and newer), along with the majority of the USB3 NICs on the market. I selected the WUSB6300 because it had the most consistent results and highest long range TX throughout of...
  7. Jim Salter

    Is this review dubious?

    Nope. It's a direct Linux boot from a separate partition, no ChromeOS involved. Standard Ubuntu kernels. Model of chromebook is largely irrelevant, as long as we're talking Intel and not ARM, since the NIC in question is a USB3 external anyway. The tests are extremely gentle in terms of CPU...
  8. Jim Salter

    SNB's Router Test Gets Tougher - A Preview

    Some quick googling comes up with this: https://linux.die.net/man/8/pppoe-server I also found a how-to with someone who got it working on Ubuntu: https://poundcomment.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/pppoe-server-on-ubuntu/ As far as I can tell, though... there really shouldn't be any encryption...
  9. Jim Salter

    SNB's Router Test Gets Tougher - A Preview

    Thanks Tim! I always check your take on any hardware I'm looking at. Not much point in trying to do my own hardware teardown if you've been there before me. =) Is PPPoE encrypted? I thought it was authentication-only? I have to admit I've paid as little attention to it as possible, since I...
  10. Jim Salter

    SNB's Router Test Gets Tougher - A Preview

    Hi Tim. What are you referring to here? Router-managed VPN and forwarding most LAN-to-WAN traffic down a tunnel to the endpoint? If that is what you're referring to, you can test it the same way you did here... just set up your "local" router inside your testing LAN, set up a "remote" router...
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