It really just comes down to whether you need Microsoft Office Home and Business, Standard Edition, Professional Edition, or the Professional Plus Edition.
I'm not sure I follow you. If you're looking to stay on the right side of the law, your only real options are picking it up from an authorized retailer or going straight through Microsoft.
Alright, I get where you're coming from now. I honestly thought you were talking about true full duplex—meaning simultaneous data flow between the repeater and the router, plus between the repeater and the client. With the tech we're using these days, that's actually doable...
I mean, look, there’s plenty of dual-band Wi-Fi out there that actually works the way it’s supposed to. Plus, even some single-band setups can pull off duplexing if they're running in MIMO mode.
It’s not even about hitting insane speeds anymore. You’ve got people moving massive files across their local network or streaming high-bitrate movies from a media server, and suddenly the bottleneck starts showing up. At my place, I’m pulling maybe 300-350 Mbps over the wireless. We’re slowly creeping toward a reality where the wired LAN becomes the bottleneck instead of the wireless...😬
Maybe they’ve got better USB controllers under the hood. Or maybe you just haven't used them long enough for things to actually start breaking down on you...