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   Bruce Perens K6BP (bruceperens_k6bp@mastodon.radio)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 03:18:30 JST Bruce Perens K6BP

   One of the most awesome things about the OpenWRT One is that it has an entirely Open Source WiFi driver that is FCC certified. This is very important because what you often see in commercial WiFi implementations these days is a pre-FCC-certified module with an embedded driver that is just good enough to be sold and doesn't ever have bug fixes applied. It's actually extremely difficult, maybe even impossible, for a company to come up with a correct implementation of a protocol as complicated ....

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     Bruce Perens K6BP (bruceperens_k6bp@mastodon.radio)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 03:19:01 JST Bruce Perens K6BP

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     ... as WiFi. Only the Open Source world has the _persistence_ to fix bad implementations until the protocol actually works by the book, and the wide body of expertise necessary to pull that off.

     The result is that I'm not seeing all of the flakyness that I'd usually experience with a commercial WiFi access point, even one that is running OpenWRT but doesn't provide the necessary _access_ to fix everything broken about its WiFi. It's a clear difference in performance.