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or, better wifi...

• enthdegree 10y ago
  comms researcher here dont count on it for the next 10 years
  • fergbrain 10y ago
    Why...lack of research/tech or lack of adoption/agreement?
• 4ad 10y ago
  I am pretty happy with 802.11ac. It's the first time ever I don't bother with wired ethernet on my laptop. I still have to carry with me ethernet cables and dongles (since I use a Macbook without an Ethernet port), but when I find 802.11ac I don't use them. I hope one day it will be ubiquitous so I don't have to carry all that crap.
  • cm2187 10y ago
    It depends on people's needs. Transfering a 4GB file over wifi is pretty painful. Transfering a 50GB VM... forget about it.
    • 4ad 10y ago
      Do you have 10GbE on your laptop? I only have gigabit ethernet on my laptop, and 802.11ac is theoretically faster. In real life I get about 80% of performance of wired ethernet, and this number will only go up in the future. Today, I am very happy with the 80% I get.
      • cpcallen 10y ago
        Curiously enough, that ratio is about the same as it was with my first laptop and 10baseT vs 802.11b...
    • MrBuddyCasino 10y ago
      Do you use a MacBook? They are one of the few notebooks that have 3-stream wifi hardware, which is why I'm consistently getting 800+Mbps in our Ubiquiti equipped office.
      • 4ad 10y ago
        Yep. I get 800+ Mbps with Macbooks, iMacs, and Routerboard (Mikrotik) access points.