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first one is not a bambu affiliate program member.
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Well, it depends. Even in this case: many will just hook it up and not care at all about the wifi standard, maybe complain if it drops out.
But on a farm, or in a place with loads of congestion, the newer standards are just better.
My wifi network is WPA3. What’s the fix here? I don’t want to downgrade to WPA2 for a new-and-already-outdated product, so I’ll place it in the IoT SSID which is WPA2 and doesn’t block the older standards. Is it a fix? I wouldn’t say so… It’s a workaround.
Speed isn’t the newer standards’ only advantage, and even if it was… On a $2000+ newly released device I wouldn’t expect the brand to cheap out on such an easy thing to implement, and to have to apply a stupid workaround from the get go.
Not trying to attack you here, I know that they most likely thought that most people won’t care.
Of course it’s not a big deal at all, but it would have been nice. And again, on a $2000+ machine I usually expect all the “it would be nice” things lol
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and if that WPA2 SSID isn’t on a VLAN (or client isolated via switch ACLs) from the rest of your network then your entire network now has the security level of WPA2
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btw, sometimes the only way to fix an issue is to tell them to update their outdated equipment. it’s a reason my product has a qualified hardware list and if someone asks for support with hardware not on the list they get told “no”
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So the first video, the guy just needed to tune the flow rate. He kinda gives it away by talking about under extrusion. The 2nd guy said they were basically the same.
For the times, notice they pick single color prints only. Kinda crappy since they are both built to be multicolor printers. Im only seeing reviewers do 1 or 2 color prints for a reason.
The bambu can obviously do more, but the prusa saves a ton of time on multicolor. Really shines vs others when you do 4 or 5 colors. And it saves half of your money in filament.
Both great printers imo.
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um second dude was literally running multi-material prints repeatedly.
In the time comparisons? I saw he ran 2 colors on some other prints. Take that back, he did do 1 3 color print, but did he use that one for a time comparison?
Not trying to argue. But I mean…Lets be fair
Man, I wish I had the energy to get this worked up about the wifi chip in my printers.
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there’s literally multiple prints in that photo that the XL could not even do correctly
Youre talking to a guy that owns a 5 head xl. lol
To each his own. Nice chat
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so you’re biased in not wanting to admit that you overpaid grossly? 
i don’t own either (just an X1C) so i have no skin in this
I own 2 x1c a p1s and 8 ams units. If i were a biased person, I wouldnt own 6 different brands of printers. If anything, Im very anti biased.
And no, i didnt over pay. It payed for itself in filament savings.
Oh and the 40w h2d and 3 ams2’s on its way…in a month lol. I cant wait to play with it.
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I’m surprised you went all in! I didn’t even do the full 40w combo. Although, mostly because I wanted it sooner than later. 
Have you done laser engraving stuff before?
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Man, if i had noticed the 1 month wait, i would have went 10w too. I was in too much of a hurry. Worried about them selling out. I kinda went nuts on accessories too. Kept going back for more lol
I have never owned a laser, but my plan is to only etch stainless steel with it. Stuff like dog tags is the only thing i have in mind so far. I just wanted that fresh new bambu scent again lol
The painful part…no gift cards. ouch. I need to get better at modeling. I had no idea how much people were making from this.
Oh, and coffee cups when the rotory tool comes out.
I don’t believe that even for a second, i did some math a bit back. i don’t think the thing has been out long enough to pay for itself in savings from eliminated poop even if you operated it 24/7/365 doing nothing but the most complex multi-material prints.
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Well then you dont print enough. Do this math, since you wont let it go. Take a $20 roll of filament and feed it into an xl every day for a year. With no purge, you save roughly 50%. Now, what is 10x365?
My xl is a dedicated multicolor printer now. Just for this reason
You probably know more about it than me, though
Im trying to be good man. Youre gonna get me in trouble
yeah… no. you’re vastly overestimating how much you purge. which you can read in the slicer. there is just no way you’ve purged 350 rolls worth of filament (to make up the difference in price between an X1C/the other competition and an XL)
edit: just checked the printing speeds of the xl and did the math. the printer hasn’t been out long enough to print enough material let alone purge - to total that much material.
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Do you even have bambu slicer? Read those funny little letters that pop up after you slice the file. It shows purge amount. Now, import a multicolor model thats normal size and slice. Then do it for 2, 3, 4 and 5 colors. Look at the purge weight in the slicer.
Heres my concession, to end this.
If both machines were sitting in front of me and i could only have 1…I would choose the bambu. But for different reasons than youre arguing. You should be jabbing me with the “it doesnt have an inclosure, heater, 24 colors etc”. You would win that argument
A prusa xl will never ever have 24 heads lol
Yes i’m well aware of how the slicer I use works.
I also looked up how fast the XL prints, calculated how much filament it would have to save to “break even” on the price difference between and an X1C
the XL hasn’t been out long enough to have broken even on reduced printer poops. in fact it won’t have been for 10 years.
The XL is just not cost effective. that doesn’t mean it isn’t cool 
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Youre right. Im the biased one thats wrong. You win. What do you think about wifi? lol