Multicasting allows for greater wireless coverage at a consistently higher speed. The 2.4Ghz spectrum is actually rather busy, what with other wireless standards operating in that same space - ZigBee, RF interference from microwaves, cordless phones, ANT+, etc. So, the 5Ghz spectrum was opened up for wireless networking use to help future proof 802.11n and allow for newer, faster data standards.

Multicast, specifically for 802.11n, is referring to being able to broadcast and host clients simultaneously on both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz frequency bands, since 802.11n, of all the common wireless standards for PCs, can be done on both. However, it's not a standard feature. Often routers will default to only 2.4Ghz in the case of either legacy devices using 802.11A/B/G, or with devices that do not recognized the 5Ghz band for 802.11n, of which the chromecast is a known device that doesn't operate at that frequency.

So, multiband routers can offer 802.11N on *either* 2.4Ghz, *or* 5Ghz, but unless they also support multicast, they cannot do both simultaneously.

Multicast is an approved feature for 802.11n, but wasn't really implemented by a lot of router manufacturers as it's a rather boutique requirement. However, newer 802.11n NICs like to default to 5GHz if they support it because it allows for greater penetration through stuff like walls and such, and is also removed from a lot of casual home RF sources.

Dear Joe,

What's up with the PFD PSA fastened to the top of the gates at the Ballard Locks, facing sailors entering the canal? It's a picture of a black outline of a variety of people, with bright colored outlines of a variety of PFD's on almost every person, with the words, "WEAR IT!", or something [points to nose]. But there's one mannish person with no apparent PFD, and a bright outline of only a fanny pack instead of a PFD on them. It doesn't even look from the black outline that guything has a PFD of any kind on them.

Is that where seapeople put CO2 cartridges these days? If they're suggesting fanny pack is an acceptable substitute for PFD, what the shit would they inflate on them? What's in their fanny pack that could save their life when they're knocked into the winter waters of the shipping canal/the lakes?

Cheers

How to fish?

Well, you have some other runs of fish that are more catchable during the autumn, like river steelhead and lingcod, but obviously for lakes, what you see is what you fish for - often the lakes around here are stocked with various species of trout, with lower/warmer lakes also having bass, and crappie, etc.

I think right now is pinks running predominantly, but they'll slacken off in a few weeks, and after that there's really no big fish runs until next early summer.

Go ahead and disregard most of what Joe said.

I feel like an ass sometimes, but this is really why I do not like to loan out gear.

Sometimes you learn that gear has been loaned out AFTER the fact.

#MarriedLife