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Metis.fi
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Metis.fi is the company blog at metis.fi, writing about systems. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on reducing Wi-Fi transmit power, which covers limiting interference and coverage radius. Comments cite it as a reference for that advice and do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Metis Oy is a privately owned Finnish ICT training and consulting company located in Helsinki, Finland, established in 1988. The customer base is in Finland, so please select Suomeksi from the top right corner language menu if you can read Finnish (or you want to amuse yourself). For English speakin
Most-linked posts?
- Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-04-10
What Hacker News says?
Turning down the transmit power of the AP might help in this situation. I use the 2.4GHz band only for legacy/unimportant devices so I've turned its transmit power to the lowest setting available. All of the legacy devices are in the same room with the AP so this is not a problem in my case. Since 2.4GHz penetrates through walls quite well this has the added benefit of limiting the radius of the coverage and to some…
Comment linking /en/2017/10/txpower/
on “Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices”Submitted Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) as a story · 356 points
HN discussionCorrect url: https://metis.fi/en/2017/10/txpower/
Comment linking /en/2017/10/txpower/
on “Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi”Submitted Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi access point as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wi-Fi Roaming as a story · 2 points
HN discussion