Additionally, I went home last night, and docked/undocked about 10 times (slowly and carefully), and every single time it hit the sides of the dock.

I would completely agree with you if, and only if, this was not a glaringly obvious potential problem. Sure, maybe this only affects a small number, or maybe too many have a screen protector so the actual number isn’t known right now, or maybe it won’t happen to the majority until everyone has had it for 3-4 months,…

I actually have a Switch, and I watch it very closely when I dock it, and it comes _very_ close to touching (and sometimes does) no matter how careful I am. I don’t let anyone in my house dock/undock the switch until I get a screen protector because of this.

I dont “think” its true, as a fellow Switch owner, I know its true. I watch the Switch _very_ _very_ carefully when I dock it, and even then, even pretending I am playing a game of Operation, it hits the sides of the dock more often than not.

In the many years that I have seen short stock launches, I have seen turn around in as early as a few days to a week (if they have enough held back for replacements, and not a lot of replacements) and I have seen months. Months isn’t an exaggeration, its based on real world observation, but it is the far end of the…

Its simple physics. The friction of plastic rubbing on plastic.

You are mistaken. There is _very_ little clearance between the screen and the dock (look inside where there are rails on either side that are very close to the screen). So little in fact that some people with glass screen protectors report that it makes it “snug” in the dock because the clearance is so small.

My dock has no rubber bits if any kind. Right out of the box its hard plastic against the screen.

Be _very_ careful with those pads, because they will collect dust over time and then absolutely scratch your screen worse than the dock would have.

If stock were readily available this would be good advice, but they are not, so that “free” replacement may take weeks to months to arrive.

This means nothing. Its just a canned PR response. What did you expect them to say: “Oh, damn, our bad. We designed the hardware poorly.” No company is going to do that. They are going to downplay it as much as possible.

I wasnt intending to be condescending, you have drawn false conclusions from my posts (like thinking I was talking about basements, or running wire down from the attic) so I attempted to clarify to avoid further miscommunication.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 and can say that its absolutely not powerful enough to get even decent N64 emulation. I can, kinda, get SNES emulation but input is pretty laggy sometimes. I would not trust this device until I can see my RP3 doing great N64 emulation.

I am not talking about basements, that would have made it so much easier, I am talking about the crawlspace, just a 2-3 foot space under a house that is typically accessed from an exterior “door”. All houses have them to some extent, but some are nicer to crawl in than others.

Well for the easiest method, you dont need to go through the wall. You can pull back the baseboard and drill down at a slight angle, and then attach a wall mounted box similar to http://www.showmecables.com/product/RJ45-Modular-Surface-Mount-Jack-White.aspx

So was I. Running the wires is trivial, a monkey could do it in an hour. Find the spot in the wall that you want the port to be, drill up from under the house into that spot (the better crawl space you have, the easier this is), and push the wire through. Its child’s play. (If you have a second person with you…

That solution “works”, yes, but you are going to add more problems than it solves. You are not avoiding all of the pitfalls of WiFi, you still get those, plus whatever other nuances you have to deal with because of the man in the middle.

I looked into those, do you happen to know what loss there is? For example, WiFi generally loses 25% or more of your speed/signal vs wired (its more like 50% in my house), have you done speed tests in a room across the house with the power line adapters vs something wired directly to the router? I would be very…

Its not magic. It was not very hard at all. Most of the time was spent learning that when you put the ends on the cables, you CANNOT untwist “just a little bit” of the twisted pairs leading to the end. I had a lot of trial and error until I did a little googling and figured out what I did wrong.

I put an “intake” port near my router, I plug into that, and then it goes to a hub in my utility closet. From there it goes into every room (some rooms have two runs)