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myself248 on June 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: ESP32-C5: Espressif’s First Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 MCU

I think it's for environments where 2.4 is just trash and you'd rather not run any of it all, and your iot crap is the only reason you're force to still stand up a 2.4 AP in the first place.

This lets you go 5-only, and that's big for some settings.

pathartl on June 22, 2022 [–]

I noticed yesterday how much traffic was on my 2.4GHz IoT network last night because my phone connected to it. TBH I have no problem with everything being on 2.4, I just wish it was common to have two 2.4 radios so you could have a true IoT-only network.

randyrand on June 22, 2022 | [–]

You can do that with two wifi modems.

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