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lkrupp said:

Would I trust my mission critical data to something like this? Not me.

Are you launching rockets into space?

I'm pretty sure that when backhaul is used on the 5GHz band, clients can also associate on the 5GHz band. I have a business-class Ubiquiti setup in my house with the UniFi APs, and even though I use wired backhaul, I specifically asked Ubiquiti engineers about APs with two radios only and how wireless backhaul affects client association. 

Ubuquiti engineers responded to me that the same band can be used for both wireless backhaul and Wi-Fi client association. That, incidentally, reduces the throughput, and that's probably the reason why your tests show less than desired throughput compared to other setups you tested before. 

I do agree that APs with three radios would solve this problems, though. I just don't think that your statement that if 5GHz is used for wireless backhaul, the Wi-Fi clients must associate on the 2.4 GHz band is accurate. 

It appears to me that the rollout of Gigabit Internet has slowed down in the US; that is until 5G Cellular access becomes universally available, which is probably years away. For now, the throughputs that you have seen in your tests are more than adequate based on the average Internet bandwidth available to US consumers. 

Let Amazon and Netflix peddle soft porn and violence in their "original series" shows. Apple can do better. 

Better Call Saul is an example of how an amazing series can be done without sex or a lot of violence. 

krreagan2 said:

I think this is great! Companies taking the initiative to be moral and family friendly (high road) without being pressured into it. For so long blood and guts and sex have been a necessary content for successful media content creation. it is nice to see Apple going in the other direction. My fear is that the American public is so accustomed to sex, violence and gore that it will take Apple several seasons to ween enough thoughtful viewers off the SV&G. Some of us can and do watch violent and sex infused media but can also just as easily watch (and prefer to watch) media that makes one think without the visceral violence and sex... (god forbid we actually use our brains during entertainment).
Someone motioned Bones as an example of good TV. I agree with this except that Bones contributed to the "clean ending" phenomena. where all is right and clean at the end. The real world is not like this. Sometimes the good guys get it wrong regardless of their morals or viewpoint and it is never gets cleaned up!

thadgarrison said:

Then they should prepare to lose the streaming wars. People that want squeaky-clean will have Disney’s streaming service. Nobody else is going to pay for bleached content. 

The problem is that in the US, only movies that have sex and violence sell well. In Europe, there are actually excellent movies that have been made for many decades that have no sex or violence. They are just good stories and great acting. Not the stupid crap that comes out of Hollywood most of the time. 

There is plenty of soft porn and violence on any streaming service already. I commend Apple and Tim Cook for this. It's a very rare occasion when I actually praise Tim Cook. 

randominternetperson said:

Great tip. I wish I knew of this a few years ago when my wife cleaned up the files "on her iPad" by deleting a bunch of shared documents. (The worst part of this was that as I went onto each other device I would see the deleted files for a second before the device synced up with the cloud, so I could feel the pain of loss more than once.)

How about turning wi-fi off and then opening the file in another device?