Re: WiFi range ...

On 06/08/2026 20:56, rbowman wrote:
> t has been a mystery to me. China can obviously do excellent work but
> some Chinese knockoffs have the appearance of the product they are
> imitating but are crap. At what point does the manufacturing cost of crap
> versus doing a little better job make sense?

A great deal of chinas 'exports' are only done to gain subsidies. China 
wants Western currencies at any price and so shipping any old tat - 
generally reject items form the 'failed test' bin - will net you a little.

Same thing happened in the EU. Many countries subsidies various exports. 
In Ireland  you drove your cows across the border to the North, 
technically part of the UK, and collected an EU export subsidy. Then you 
drove them back through your neighbours farm that straddled the border 
the following night.

I think the best one was the Spanish solar farm collecting subsidies for 
generation *at night*.

They were using Diesel generators. Diesel cost a lot less than they were 
paid for 'green electricity'...


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