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  • I'm guessing here, but the only thing that makes sense in context is Fixed Wireless Access, FWA.

    Maybe some error with the initialism snuck in because Shimitar is from Italy. I could see myself doing something similar, since in German we read W as "vee".

  • All these shady things started happening after he left.

    Not really, they have a history of this kind of thing. They just calmed down a little between roughly 2005 and 2015.

    The big antitrust case when they killed Netscape was in 1998. Bill Gate's deposition from that case is kind of interesting to watch as a historical document. It's on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90W55zhFBOuZuhgxBsjpgDy0o3ll1PSz

    In that lawsuit their "Embrace Extend Extinguish" strategy in which they tried to smother open standards became public too.

    They tried with Java and their J++ language too, but failed luckily. And lost a lawsuit against Sun on the way.

  • I'll just quote the OpenWRT Wiki here, because I think half the comments here confuse mesh and roaming:

    Are you sure you want a mesh?

    If you are looking for a solution to enable your user devices to seamlessly roam from one access point to another in your home, you need 802.11r (roaming), not 802.11s.

    It is unfortunate that some manufacturers have used the word “Mesh” for marketing purposes to describe their non-standard, closed source, proprietary “roaming” functionality and this causes great confusion to many people when they enter the world of international standards and open source firmware for their network infrastructure.

    • The accepted standard for mesh networks is ieee802.11s.
    • The accepted standard for fast roaming of user devices is ieee802.11r.

    These are two completely unrelated standards.

    Source: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/802-11s#are_you_sure_you_want_a_mesh

  • I think there were like two couples and another person entering the building just ahead of me, so I had to wait 10 seconds until it was my turn to drop my envelope in the urn. This was in Switzerland, in a suburb of Zürich.

    But more often I just walk in up to the box, say hello to the people organising and drop it in directly. I've never encountered a queue yet.