Well, this was a surprise. Decided to run a simple LAN ping test between two of my access points, and the results were not what I expected.

Contender 1: The "mighty" Ubiquiti UniFi AC Lite
Contender 2: The tiny MikroTik mAP Lite

The winner? By a long shot, the MikroTik! It showed much better stability and lower latency.

The Stats:

- MikroTik: Avg 8.2ms / Jitter 10ms

- Ubiquiti: Avg 15.4ms / Jitter 32.1ms

Goes to show that size isn't everything in the world of networking.

#SysAdmin #NetworkGear #Ubiquiti #MikroTik #WiFi #HomeNetworking #IT #HomeLab

At #Zürich #Zurich airport #ZRH apparently they require a boarding pass OR your passport just to connect to the so called "free WiFi".

Passport data just to use a #WiFi? What is next? ID check to post something on Instagram?

Come on, a WiFi is a commodity like a power socket.
The whole useless infrastructure with those kiosks, connection to boarding pass validators and the printer to print out vouchers - and this in 2025.

📸 : @strigohabro

After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/iss…

MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.

It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.

With #LibreOffice now able to include #QRCode directly, it's easy to create #WiFi connection posters!

(While still putting the info as text for those who can't decode the QR…)

Menu: Insert -> OLE Object -> QR code and barcode

The URI to use is a bit weird, cf.

web.archive.org/web/2022051701… (French but it's clear enough)

WIFI:S:<SSID>;T:<WPA|WEP>;P:<password>;H:<false|true>;;

(A ; is required after the password, the remainder is optional. H is for hidden APs)