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Superior if your a laptop user sitting on the back deck. I run backups/bluray movies/etc between my NAS and assorted devices. I will assure you that my desktop

Superior if your a laptop user sitting on the back deck. I run backups/bluray movies/etc between my NAS and assorted devices. I will assure you that my desktop PC's, which are connected via 10GbaseT have ~30x faster access to said NAS than the small business class AC WIFI AP's I use. The latency, throughput and most importantly the reliability of a decent wired network is still far superior to wifi, and I have a far cleaner/stronger wifi system than the vast majority of wifi networks I've seen. Even so, I still run wires to my home theater devices because I don't have to worry about dropouts in the middle of streaming a bluray, or more importantly the random driver/etc bugs that seem far more frequent on wifi than boring old ethernet. Plus, with the advent of reasonable speed internet accesses (thanks google!) the WiFi is frequently the bottleneck. One room away and that AC 1200 router is only actually delivering 200Mbits, or for that matter the 20 closest neighbors APs/wireless phones/airport radar/etc are messing up the spectrum.

novaleaf 10y ago
I think people are forgetting that most people (in the usa or globally) don't have the disposable income to (re)wire a house with ethernet. From a "humanity" perspective I stand by my point. Now for the average HN reader, sure I'm wrong. Enjoy your first world problems :)
- ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  Depends heavily on the house and where you are putting computers. A surprisingly large number of people have their computers right next to their cable modems.
- andwur 10y ago
  It cost me $250 ($100 of which was 300m of Cat6) and a very tedious, insulation filled, Sunday to wire my house up with 1Gbit ports in every room. Comparing that to the price of the current batch of AC WiFi access points (that look like stealth bombers) I don't think it's too unreasonable.
  - XorNot 10y ago
    Yeah these days even doing Cat 6 is pretty cheap. We ran Cat 6 throughout the apartment, and the biggest nuisance of it was figuring out the best way to do conduit (solid brick walls mean we can't just go in-wall).
  - jl6 10y ago
    You are not counting the cost of your expertise in networking and DIY. Most people don't get that for free.

novaleaf 10y ago

I think people are forgetting that most people (in the usa or globally) don't have the disposable income to (re)wire a house with ethernet. From a "humanity" perspective I stand by my point. Now for the average HN reader, sure I'm wrong. Enjoy your first world problems :)

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
Depends heavily on the house and where you are putting computers. A surprisingly large number of people have their computers right next to their cable modems.
andwur 10y ago
It cost me $250 ($100 of which was 300m of Cat6) and a very tedious, insulation filled, Sunday to wire my house up with 1Gbit ports in every room. Comparing that to the price of the current batch of AC WiFi access points (that look like stealth bombers) I don't think it's too unreasonable.
- XorNot 10y ago
  Yeah these days even doing Cat 6 is pretty cheap. We ran Cat 6 throughout the apartment, and the biggest nuisance of it was figuring out the best way to do conduit (solid brick walls mean we can't just go in-wall).
- jl6 10y ago
  You are not counting the cost of your expertise in networking and DIY. Most people don't get that for free.