Smart home getting dumber

[Limey (Ray Ward)]

@HudsonHawk

Plumbing in my house is more like a daisy chain than a hub and spoke. Yes, it all enters the house through one pipe, but everything passes through the same pipe down the line.

Exactly, and it still works. So if you build an ethernet network on a manifold system, that’s better.

[HudsonHawk]

@Limey

Currently, I use the Xfinity combo box for modem/router duty. It’s perfectly adequate for my needs and they make using non-proprietary equipment just annoying enough to keep me away from doing that. Fucking thing takes 12 minutes to reboot though, which is why I have it on a UPS.

AT&T is this way too. Their modem/router is just effective enough, and they make it just annoying enough to work around, that I keep their modem/router combo.