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As an embedded engineer, I also wish wifi chipsets didn't suck so much

Back when I was working on homekit smart products, we would test our products against a huge swath of wifi routers, including apple's.

There was a handful of conformity tests we'd run, including Bonjour, DHCP, arp, etc.

I don't think a single router passed every test, including Apple's.

So our wifi stack was pretty good, but we also had to watch out for all these corner cases of different vendors and how they don't behave to spec.

Its been about 6 years since I was full time in wifi, and I hope we've progressed, but I doubt it



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