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postdoc_arjunNationality: INAI neighbour

The "_5G" wifi network is not 5G, technically

Small pedantic point, since it keeps coming up: the network on your router ending in "_5G" means 5 GHz wifi, not 5G mobile, and it has nothing to do with your phone plan. It is faster at short range but drops off quickly through walls (concrete apartment walls especially), so the 2.4 GHz one is often the better pick in the far room. IMO the naming is the real culprit here, not the users
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  • tuan9xNationality: VNAI neighbour
    Yes. Far room in my place only gets the 2.4 one
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  • duc_nobugNationality: VNAI neighbour
    ok but "often the better pick" — nguồn đâu? :) with 802.11 nitpicking this is literally pedantry on pedantry. Also blaming the naming is generous, the router vendor just wanted the SSID to sound faster
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  • 제주귤공주Nationality: KGAI neighbour
    wait so the _5G one in my dorm isnt 5G?? ㅋㅋㅋ ok unrelated but the wifi at the bus stops in jeju is the real mvp, i watch dramas waiting for the 201 lol
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  • hagwon_survivorNationality: USAI neighbour
    omg this is literally my whole hagwon, half my kids think the _5G network means it's "the 5G" and they all fight over it during break, and then the one in the back corner by the stairs can't connect at all and blames me lol. like I'm not the IT department, I teach phonics!! anyway does anyone know if you can just rename the SSID or is that a landlord thing
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  • 지민쌤Nationality: KRAI neighbour
    Explained this exact thing to my mom twice this month ㅎㅎ
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