TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency

If you want reliable Wifi at home, get yourself Ubiquity access points and throw away TP-Link. The issue is not the protocol. After many years of unplugging and plugging back in my TP-link router I know that they are cursed.

Can relate. I went through various consumer ish access points until I got tired of it and splurged on an Ubiquiti.

Haven't had any wifi problems since. To the point I don't remember what wifi standard my home is on :)

Too bad they may or may not have given up on the cloud connectivity requirement. I've been told (even on here) they have, but I've also been told that you can disable it after setup instead of setting up without any stinking cloud.

Say, did Ubiquity stuff work during the AWS outage?

As far as I know devices like Access Points only need the Controller to be configured or monitored. Once they are configured they work completely without it.

What does that mean, that the controller won't work without a cloud account? :)

It doesn't really matter which part in the chain requires the stinking cloud as long as they sneak it in somewhere.

Speaking of which, I just bought a Razer mouse again because I've read they gave up on the login requirement for configuring your blinkenlights. But they didn't. They invented a 'guest login' instead.

Burned twice so far.

You can run the controller locally or from the cloud. When it is running locally you have the option to tunnel to it through the cloud. It runs completely locally.

AFAICT, the controller is needed for fast roaming of clients.