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Netgear has a new $1,500 Wi-Fi 6e mesh router
You guys cleared this up for me. I was looking at Orbi mesh router at Costco this weekend and was debating replacing my Netgear Nighthawk due to all the issue you pointed out above. I was not sure if Netgear mess with the original Orbi design which I read in the past worked well. I have been a long time Netgear user, I have a number of their routers and network switches in my house over the last 15 years. I have been off and on fighting my Nighthawk router with dropping connections and just locked up internet traffic. I have reported the issue in detail to Netgear and they have not been able to address any of these issue over the last 3 yrs, they keep coming out with security update and so call bug fixes and everyone update breaks something new. Right with their latest update 5Ghz bandwidth is useless, it initially allows you to connect after a reboot and sometime during the night it decides not to let your devices to connect, or device does not even see there is the 5Ghz channel. I not a google Fan and many of the other routers out there are design and built in China and have their own issue of tracking your usage.mrstep said:
I ended up going out and buying a Deco (been fairly happy with it) - my Orbi would consistently drop the WiFi connectivity of devices. They'd claim to be connected, but have no data pass through. Turn off WiFi, turn it back on, and you'd get data for anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour or two. Of course, that meant you'd never know *when* it would stop, wouldn't see texts/mail in a timely manner... And it all started after some firmware update they did - it had been pretty good up until then. After the update, I gave it about a year to get fixed, and it never did. Awful to use at that point. Maybe they've fixed it, I don't trust Netgear at this point.TripleTrouble said:My Orbi Router set (RBR50s) is the worst piece of kit I've ever owned (at least since the Lowes Iris smart home fiasco). Bad build, bad user experience, bad networking, bad app, bad customer service, what's there to like?
People seem to like the Google stuff, Deco has been been good for my house, I really wish Apple had stayed in the router game... But I'll never get near an Orbi again.
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China increases power cuts, 'scared' suppliers look to leave country
If you beliver this, you need some reeducation. Everything on that lists was paid for by the US tax payers and none of it would exist if it was not for capitalism. The government does not create a thing, they only take money and redistribute it there is no value add, they mostly distroy value in the process. There are few on the list which are true socialist program and are failures. SS is running out of money since whole idea relied on each generation being larger than the one in front of it, the Boomers will deplete most of it leaving nothing for those behind them. What a great program, i just wish they allow me to invest that 14% they get of wages I would have done fare better for myself. Then again I do not rely on others to do thing for me.StrangeDays said:
Oh, did you mean California - the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world? Yeah they're doing fine. Just because anti-labor and anti-COVID-measures wingnuts like Musk chase corporate welfare elsewhere doesn't mean there is anything wrong w/ CA.tedz98 said:This is a classic example of the failures of communism, big government and central planning. They can’t keep the lights on! The article, which in many ways from a journalistic perspective, isn’t written well - doesn’t answer the basic question of why there is a power shortage in China. It also speaks to the corruption of big government. Companies with political influence, and by inference, the resources to bribe officials, are the ones who get electricity (sounds a bit like what’s going on in Washington D.C.) You can be sure if companies are being denied electricity, private citizens are going without power in their homes. Do global warming alarmists really think China is going to limit CO2 output when they are bringing new coal burning power plants online every week, yet still can’t meet power demand? Apple should have been undertaking a serious effort to leave China a long time ago. But the lure of cheap labor and easier profitability has kept them there longer than they should have been. So wake up America! The siren’s lure of big brother government being the provider of the basic necessities of daily life touted by the likes of AOC, Bernie, Biden, Nancy and Schumer are deceptive and false. California, which is already a semi-socialist state, is well on its way to being unable to meet everyday power needs during periods of peak demand. Gavin Newsome and his ilk in Sacramento falsely think they posses the intellectual superiority to control the basic economic, environmental and societal variables of California to lead to optimal outcomes for the citizens of California. Given the outflow of people and companies from California I would argue they are failing. Tesla is moving their headquarters to Texas as a very recent example of this. Not to mention the California problems with homelessness. Apple’s next big worry is TSMC and their reliance on Taiwan for Apple CPU’s. If Apple were smart they’d be knocking on the doors of Intel and other domestic chip producers and start developing backup supply chains for chips. This is a multi-year effort so get started now! The China pendulum has reached its apex. Time for new plans Apple!
Also, you've enjoyed the fruits of socialism since before you were born.
Keep in mind Socialism is that the government control all means of production meaning everyone works for the government and no one gets paid since the government provides everything. Everyone is equally poor, it is easier to drag people down and to pull everyone up, and the one no raising rather pull everyone down to make themselves feel better for failing themselves.
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China increases power cuts, 'scared' suppliers look to leave country
DAalseth said:
That is the most profound part. We shouldn’t be dependant on what China does, or what Iran does, or what Russia does. With a domestic, renewable energy supply we could, as my folks said back IN THE 1970s, tell them to drink their damn oil. Same goes for natural gas, or coal. Move off of them and it won’t just be good for the planet, it will be good for national security.tmay said:
The cost of fossil fuels is not just emissions but also in exposure to this volatility
and you know at night the sun does not shire and winds drop off and batteries storage is expense and must be replaced every 7 to 10 yrs and batteries can not be recycled and material which goes into batteries comes out of mines which requires lots of heavy equipment along with the material going into solar cell. Also the blades on windmills need to be replaces every 10 to 15 yrs due to stress crack and they can not be recyled since they are made of fiberglass. Solar panels need to be replaces every 20 to 25 year and can not be recycled. The real solution is not solar cell, batteries and windmills. It is Nuclear and hydrogen in either a fuel cell or Hydrogen combusion engins. Last yr the US was engery independent, for the first time in over 50 yrs and in a few short month the US is now dependent on what the world is doing yet again with no solution to do something else. Even if everyone home in the US had solar panels and windmill it could not product enough power to run our economy. Your can not run a factory off solar or windmills.
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China increases power cuts, 'scared' suppliers look to leave country
On the very surface you would think this is a failure of the central planning, and I think China maybe wants everyone to think this. It is more than this, China is doing this on purpose and it not to help with global warming they have not cared for the last 30 yrs and they did not all of a sudden start worshiping at the alter of the world going to burn up in 12 yrs fear mongers.tedz98 said:This is a classic example of the failures of communism, big government and central planning. They can’t keep the lights on! The article, which in many ways from a journalistic perspective, isn’t written well - doesn’t answer the basic question of why there is a power shortage in China. It also speaks to the corruption of big government. Companies with political influence, and by inference, the resources to bribe officials, are the ones who get electricity (sounds a bit like what’s going on in Washington D.C.) You can be sure if companies are being denied electricity, private citizens are going without power in their homes. Do global warming alarmists really think China is going to limit CO2 output when they are bringing new coal burning power plants online every week, yet still can’t meet power demand? Apple should have been undertaking a serious effort to leave China a long time ago. But the lure of cheap labor and easier profitability has kept them there longer than they should have been. So wake up America! The siren’s lure of big brother government being the provider of the basic necessities of daily life touted by the likes of AOC, Bernie, Biden, Nancy and Schumer are deceptive and false. California, which is already a semi-socialist state, is well on its way to being unable to meet everyday power needs during periods of peak demand. Gavin Newsome and his ilk in Sacramento falsely think they posses the intellectual superiority to control the basic economic, environmental and societal variables of California to lead to optimal outcomes for the citizens of California. Given the outflow of people and companies from California I would argue they are failing. Tesla is moving their headquarters to Texas as a very recent example of this. Not to mention the California problems with homelessness. Apple’s next big worry is TSMC and their reliance on Taiwan for Apple CPU’s. If Apple were smart they’d be knocking on the doors of Intel and other domestic chip producers and start developing backup supply chains for chips. This is a multi-year effort so get started now! The China pendulum has reached its apex. Time for new plans Apple!
China is doing this to hurt the world economy, if they drive the world into a recession they think they will come out the other stronger since they do not care what happen to the people on a daily bases. China is in it for the long haul, they are not short sighted QoQ view, they looking 25 to 30 yrs out, it may hurt the short term but long term they could come out a head. For 30 yrs US companies were looking to outsource as much as they could to low wage countries like China. However in the last 3 yrs more companies have been bring things back onshore and manufacturing once again was growing in the US. China does not like this and they could not stop the movement, the only way to stop it now is to drag down the economy which will kill off manufacturing in the US. As more thing get more closely to buy, people buy less. It is starting to happen now and companies are beginning to cut back production.
I Agree Apple has an issue with TSMC, since China is outwardly being more aggressive toward Taiwan and already sent a message to the US it not in their best interest at this point to get in the China's way in regards to Taiwan. I work with people in Taiwan and they very concern and are starting to look how to get out.
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More early details about Apple's folding iPhone revealed
First we all know Apple has lots of patents for ideas which have not see light of day, we are still waiting on the thought the display finger ID, or the camera built into the actual display not pin hole in the display they use today. I personally would not hold your breath on this one.Those who said that the iPhone has been copied and Apple has not gone after companies, keep in mind you can’t patent the industrial design of the phone, Steve tried with the whole curves and radius thing but companies got around that, most of the real importance ones they won, but they are probably 50/50 on most cases and there are plenty we never heard about. Most of the ones they lost were to patent trolls non practicing entities.
