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0x457yesterday at 4:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

That and WiFi being stuck at 802.11g is what made me switch. It was a very sad day for me when I uninstalled FreeBSD from all of non-server machines.


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craftkilleryesterday at 6:40 PM

That certainly _used_ to be the case, but it looks like 802.11ac is supported in iwlwifi since FreeBSD 14.3: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwlwifi&sektion=4&...

And it looks like they're adding 802.11ac support to some realtek drivers too: https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2025-10-2025-12/#_linu...

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rjswyesterday at 7:55 PM

Ethernet works fine for me at home, only use WiFi when travelling.