Speaking of…
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Yea, I’ll be honest I never even considered to think about what wifi chip or generation my A1 Mini came with and while I am still a network novice, I do have somewhat of a homelab/homenetwork running. It’s just I don’t care if my 3d printer has FAST wifi or 10Gbe in it. I would like it to have a wired connection, but it’s not a deal breaker for me.
While most of the thread seems to want to duke it out over wifi security (lol?) or wifi performance (who cares?), for me it’s more about the ancient wifi-N being reliably supported by modern wifi routers.
I don’t know about things outside NA, but I think a lot of people simply use the whatever wifi router/cable/fibre modem that’s provided by the ISP. And I am willing to bet that most of these routers these days reserve most of antennas for wifi 6+ by default and wifi-N is an afterthought.
Some of the IT support used to advise people to keep old wifi routers and use them as dedicated wifi-N wireless hotspots to support all the old trinkets that pollute the limited number of available channels.
Considering the price of H2D, I hope it’s a fair statement that people should expect to get at least 5 years out of it. I wonder just how bad the wifi-N reliability will be then.
PS: I know I focused on “home gamers”, not on pro users or print farms. Well, as their main tagline says “rethink personal manufacturing”. To me, it means it’s aimed at consumers, regardless how much people wish it was otherwise.
(edited to replace references to 2.4GHz with generic “wifi-N”)
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Thanks for the info. I really want one but I had no idea about the security issues. It sounds like I need to stop procrastinating and go through my home network to secure it from all my IoT devices 
oh come on how has a conversation about wifi devolved into a prusa v bambu?
prusas have ******* connectivity too, but they at least have an ethernet port lol. Saying anything more is going off topic. They’re all great printers, and they all have stupid wifi chips that drive me mad. WHY prusa, WHY Bambu? spend the extra 2 cents and give us something that I can trust more lol
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if you’re not a technical person, it’s usually quite easy, just enable the guest wifi in your home router! the only hassle is moving all iot devices there lol.
If you are… have fun! 
I have two iot subnets, one that can access the internet, and one that can’t.
let us venture a wild guess: your printer is on the one that connects to internet 
A technical person would understand than an IoT isolated SSID only solves one of the problems I listed. It doesn’t solve the issues with reliability
You seemed to have, like everyone else, missed the wifi reliability issue that literally is causing livestream to be unusable for many people (just check a quick Google search) due to cochannel interference primarily
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Why is it that people are unable to understand that newer wifi standards aren’t just about speed?
Especially in a thread where that is already explained
RELIABILITY RELIABILITY
The primary focus of 6 and 7 is reliability. Performance gains are secondary.
2.4Ghz is so over used by wifi and other technologies that in many areas it is rendered useless without the reliability features of newer wifi editions
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ha, the printer and a dumb LG water heater lol
I have already expressed my opinion on this, you’re being overly aggressive now. I literally agreed with you lol, putting it in a separate network is a workaround not a fix for the problem. It is also not a huge problem, but still
who cares what wi-fi is being used 
, what a bunch of tosh this little gurly thread is 
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“Trust me, I’m an engineer.”
Doubtful that the technician with the duct tape is an engineer.
There is no legitimate excuse for a $2200+ machine to not have at least a hardwire gigabit Ethernet port.
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https://www.wiisfi.com/ for anyone that needs or wants a more in depth explanation of the different wifi versions.
I think maybe he/she is just like that all the time. 
It seems they’re going for the lifetime achievement of being able to brag about getting into an argument with everyone on the forum at least once.
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A while back StreetSports made a big deal when I mentioned that engineers and other such professionals tended to buy their 3D printers through dealers that cater to them. He responded by repeatedly throwing insults at me. Even after I pointed out that if one wants to purchase an X1-E, which is sold as a professional machine, one is directed to a dealer, even after others had verified it, he insisted, rather smuggly, on pretending he was right.
First impressions and all, I find it very difficult to take anything he writes seriously and mostly ignore him.
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You’d be surprised, or maybe not, how many maintenance techs think that they are smarter than engineers.
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I am siding with no one. I am just pointing out that when I first came to this forum you repeatedly and rudely insulted me over a subject on which you are entirely ignorant of. First impressions and all.