Benefits of running 2 Wi-Fi networks from the same router? What are the downsides? (I don't know if there is a better community for this question) (discuss.tchncs.de)

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I am worried that there is not really a benefit of doing that, just more noise and energy consumption.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AP	WiFi Access Point
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
IP	Internet Protocol
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PoE	Power over Ethernet
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
Unifi	Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN	Virtual Private Network
Zigbee	Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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[-] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Good bot

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