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We gave WiFi 800Mhz in the 5Ghz band and we said the same thing at the time 'this is the last we'll need'. That's 10x as much as in 2.4ghz and at a higher frequency.

I remember a lot of people at the time getting really upset about how wasteful that was. Just saying.

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It’s wasteful on its face when not combined with regulation and incentives to shift stuff off of Wi-Fi. 6GHz has practical applications in the AR/VR space, which is why I’m in favor of giving it to Wi-Fi. Ultimately though, we need the industry to stop being lazy and start really agitating for ethernet in construction and devices as the norm, not Wi-Fi.

Yeah it seems like channel width should be limited to 80mhz or narrower per AP

there is only 160MHz on 5Ghz that's non DFS/Weather Radar

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