 Craig asks he says one of my retirement passions he says is collecting older Apple Gear and he's already got like a G3 iMac and a cube and a sunflower and the quick silver power was so cool. I'm concerned about how best to integrate this stuff into my household Wi-Fi network. The question is will my these old devices slow down my network? Because there was a time when that was true that a device that was say 802.11b or 802.11g would slow down the other devices on your wireless network. Those days are mostly now over and let me explain. The basis for that whole you know bg even end devices will slow down your network was based on the concept of airtime fairness or lack thereof. Wi-Fi only allowed and I say allowed but with these devices it's still true with with current standards of everything's unlike you know Wi-Fi 6 then multiple devices can talk but when you've got a bg or an end device Wi-Fi only allows one client to talk with the router at any given time or with the access point at any given time and the access point plays traffic cop in that scenario right the the way it works it by default the way Wi-Fi works by default is that it allows each client to send a specific amount of data before moving on to the next client so it says okay you can send you know 100k of data and then I'm going to pause you and I'm going to go listen to the next thing and you know go round Robin or however it's deciding to go around that all seems fine and good except when you have a scenario where you've got say an 802.11 b device and an 802.11 ac device both connected to the same access point because it takes the 802.11 b device way longer to send 100k than it does the 802.11 ac and that would therefore cause in many scenarios it to quote unquote slow down the other devices it wasn't that it was slowing down your your devices it was just that it wasn't letting them talk as much because everybody was limited to a certain amount of data but that only would happen if your devices are transmitting or receiving lots of data if they're just sort of existing on the network not so much of a problem so with like iot devices not really a concern but with computers that are going to be web browsing and downloading software updates and all that stuff that could cause problems and that's why this concept that i mentioned called airtime fairness came into being about a decade ago and he had meant craig mentioned that he has an orbi i believe orbi supports this i don't know if it's on by default in the orbi but you can certainly turn on airtime fairness it's it's one of the options in the wi-fi settings for lots of current routers what airtime fairness does is it changes the traffic cops rules aka the algorithm from a data-based scenario to a time-based scenario so instead of saying you get to send 100k it's you get to talk for 200 milliseconds and then i'm shutting you down regardless of how much data you were able to send then it goes to the next person that says okay the clock starts now send as much or receive as much as you want and so by enabling airtime fairness life should be fairly manageable even with those older devices on your network i i would advise and i this is what i do on my networks where i have control of it a lot of things just do this automatically now most mesh systems are using airtime fairness but my advice is to enable airtime fairness unless you have some very specific reason not to because it it just makes the network work better and i i think it is the default for a lot of things so hopefully that helps craig