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Re: Broadband Router Comparisons
From: Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 07:56:57 -0800
On 12/26/2015 11:37 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
If someone like Consumer Reports or similar agency started testing and rating devices on these things like long-time support, automatic updates, software quality etc, and not just testing wifi speed as a factor of distance, we might get somewhere.
Just how would a reviewer rate "long-time support" and "software quality"? As for "automatic updates", that's at the whim of the manufacturer down the road, so any evaluation of updates would be dated the second it's printed.
Testing WiFi speed as a factor of distance is a repeatable test, so that the chance of a lawsuit over the result is slimmer.
Consumer Reports, for example, sends out a survey to its readers to collect information on long-term ownership experience of cars. It's a large enough investment that people are willing to fill out the survey. Not so broadband routers.
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- RE: Broadband Router Comparisons Keith Medcalf (Dec 24)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Joly MacFie (Dec 23)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Mike (Dec 26)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Mikael Abrahamsson (Dec 26)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Mikael Abrahamsson (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Larry Sheldon (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Stephen Satchell (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Michael Thomas (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Hugo Slabbert (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Michael Thomas (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Hugo Slabbert (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Mikael Abrahamsson (Dec 26)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons James Downs (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Josh Reynolds (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Hugo Slabbert (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Josh Reynolds (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 27)
- Re: Broadband Router Comparisons John Levine (Dec 27)