From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10/21/2025 9:02 AM, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 10/13/25 2:02 PM, Paul wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 10/13/2025 9:39 AM, bad sector wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Paul does have a way of talking down to 'quarters where the ragged people   
   go' to quote Simon and Garafunkel. It's as if you were in a biology-101 class   
   and having asked a pedestrian question the prof would look up from his notes   
   and say:   
   >>>   
   >>> "Have you ever heard about the theory of natuaral selection or am I a   
   harsh judge of character?"*  :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Mind you I should have thought of the 2.4/5ghz split that he raised   
   because my router does have both so maybe the answer lies in splitting those   
   on a per service basis? No, not for me, I want less involvement not more; I   
   may have to just settle for    
   something from Bose with wires on it.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> * an actual quote from my theology prof in a class of 400 students packed   
   in like sardines and sitting on the hardwood floor of a gymn.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Well, I never know to what extent a term is "popular", and I've seen   
   >> references to WiDi when the topic of "what replaces Miracast" come up.   
   >>   
   >> If I had said Wifi Direct, maybe people would assume this was   
   >> a company on the Internet that sold Wifi stuff :-)   
   >>   
   >> I'm the only person who uses this stuff, obviously.   
   >> (No Wifi router, but I have Wifi adapters).   
   >>   
   >>     Paul   
   >   
   > post didn't make it out the last time   
   >   
   > I asked chatgpt and in the case of a wifi printer, if I read correctly, I   
   still need to connect to the printer's WFFD network created to allow   
   connection without a router.   
   >   
   > https://chatgpt.com/c/68f61f55-d124-8329-860b-90f31d78d1a7   
   >   
   > This means I cannot print while connected to my sphone hot-spot for example.   
   So I need to explore how a *dual or triple WAN* router would handle such an   
   assignment.   
   >   
   > At present I'm accessing the net via 3 connections:   
   >   
   > 1 - my sphone hot-spot   
   > 2 - a community radio network fed by a badwidth wholesaler   
   > 3 - just signed up to starlink (axed cable to pay for it)   
   >   
   > The sphone hotspot is a backup but I might also use it with either the   
   laptop or the desktop when the other box is maxing out one of the other two   
   connections.   
   >   
   > The community radio network will in the near future include TV and is most   
   > likely there to stay (except that it's a small and fragile outfit without the   
   > backbones of a big-league provider).   
      
   There is an example of a Wifi Direct setup of an HP Printer here. It seems to   
   use Wifi Direct and a WPS password or something.   
      
      https://support.hp.com/hk-en/document/ish_1841315-1637332-16   
      
   The instructions for these things, don't seem to dwell on the technical   
   details of nameserving, so that operation on a different OS, you can   
   compensate for any slight differences.   
      
   *******   
      
   The Starlink comes with its own router, but the router is pretty basic   
   and some people replace it with their own router.   
      
   While I can see one TPLink with three or four WAN ports of capability, the   
   Internet   
   is awash with mis-information and mis-labeled info pages. The thing is   
   likely to be able to do fail-over with two WANs, but one reporter says it   
   takes a minute or so to detect the primary WAN has dropped and then it   
   uses the secondary WAN. It can apparently also load balance   
   (likely using "metrics" like Linux or Windows might use, to set   
   the priority for how many connections or what amount of traffic   
   goes on each WAN). But because the device is a managed router,   
   and the easy control of the router is via a Cloud website, this   
   is hardly what we all pine for in networking equipment. I want   
   a router that sits in my home, and is purely controlled in my   
   home, and I "can't log into it from the WAN side, not evar".   
      
   This is perhaps, too much of a research topic for me, to pick   
   a good solution.   
      
   *******   
      
   How I might arrange this, is I would   
      
       1 - my sphone hot-spot                                        <===   
   emergency direct connect to PC/PC port   
      
       2 - a community radio network fed by a bandwidth wholesaler   \___ 2-WAN   
   failover or load balancer box   
       3 - just signed up to starlink (axed cable to pay for it)     /   
      
   That might reduce the complexity of the thing.   
      
      Paul   
      
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