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Part of the issue is that there isn’t really a professional class that is dedicated to home Internet like other home services. For Joe Homeowner, they call the plumber to put in a new sink, an electrician to hang a light fixture, the HVAC guy to put in A/C… and Comcast when the Internet is acting up? This would be equivalent to calling the city’s water department when your toilet is clogged with a Barbie doll.

Electricians are the closest match, but usually telephone wiring is the closest experience they have to running Ethernet. They know nothing about properly setting up APs and the RF considerations.

So when building houses, builders don’t bother, because getting that labor is specialized and homeowners are satisfied with the equivalent of a port-a-potty from Comcast in the living room because they don’t know any better.

parent teeray 2 years ago

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