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I don't need lower latency, I need better congestion management. WiFi in busy areas (like airports) sucks.

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> WiFi in busy areas (like airports) sucks.

This is part of what opening up the 6 GHz was about.

But there are also provisions in newer standards like Target Wake Time: the client can be told to sleep for a while, not using radio spectrum (and also saving battery).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah#Target_Wake_Time

OFDMA allows multiple clients to use the same frequency at the same time (using sub-channels):

* https://airheads.hpe.com/blogs/antar1/2020/10/19/why-is-ofdm...

* https://community.tp-link.com/us/home/stories/detail/201

I haven't encountered issues with airports' WiFi in many years, at least not the ones I fly from in Europe.

What airports have you seen issues lately? It's one thing I haven't thought about in a long time.

I recently torrented a movie on a airport wifi while waiting for a plane and it worked so well, even when walking around the airport to the plane. I was impressed.

Use a remote server for such vile behavior.

Nah, that's too much work, public wifi is great for that.

can you explain why using torrents is vile behavior?

Without a personal opinion one way or the other, I would assume the gripe is with congesting the public network as opposed to the choice of public domain documentaries you downloaded.

“Linux ISOs”

Oh to be clear I illegally downloaded copyrighted works of major movie studios while they had just hit the streaming sites.

They're not necessarily different things. Increased latency can happen as a result of congestion on the band.

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