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echo: rberrypi
to: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
from: ALISTER
date: 2021-01-21 18:09:00
subject: Re: Inbuilt Wifi

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:24:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> For reasons not pertinent to PIs, I started researching wifi
> performance, and would like the assembled multitudes to comment on the
> correctness, or otherwise of what I have found.
>
> - All Pis with built-in Wifi use the Broadcomm chip - This chip is not
> capable of 5Ghz connectivity - Nor is it capable of 40Mhz dual channel
> operation - ergo it *cannot* connect at *more* than 72Mbps
>
> And its often _way_ worse than that.

3b+ 4b & pi400 all speak 5ghz

not sure about max speed



--
> I thing you're missing the capability of Makefiles.

        It takes several _hours_ to do `make' a second time on my
machine with the latest glibc sources (and no files are recompiled a
second time).  I think I'll remove `build' after changing one file if
I want to recompile it.
  -- Juan Cespedes 

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