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I wouldn't listen because my wireless network works just fine, even without listening to such strange advice. :) Can I push 1 Gbps from my phone to my other ph
by jsight 10y ago
I wouldn't listen because my wireless network works just fine, even without listening to such strange advice. :)
Can I push 1 Gbps from my phone to my other phone? No... but I don't need to. My TVs and other devices work just fine too (none of them need more than 10Mbps to be usable, even with stable HD streaming).
The few things that do need bandwidth are on a wired connection giving them a hefty 1 Gbps that isn't interfered with by anything.
Maybe you have just had terrible routers?
- PaulHoule 10y agoNo, I live in the 99% of America where ordinary people can afford more than 500 square feet of living space. Also, my phone company refuses to upgrade so I am on high-latency DSL. When a packet gets dropped in my local network, it takes a long time to get a replacement from internet based services. You don't need high bandwidth to use the internet reliably, but you do need low packet loss, and the effects of packet loss and high latency multiply with each other -- local packet loss is much more painful if your internet is slow than if it is fast. Thus having a reliable local network helps experienced performance, even if you have a 2Mbps internet connection.
- derefr 10y agoThat's 99% by volume, not by population, right? Because I would estimate that at least 5% of the US population both chooses to live in high-density urban areas—so must rent apartments—and cannot afford large ones, precisely because of how high-density (and therefore high cost-per-sq-ft) the local area is.
- djrogers 10y ago> so must rent apartments—and cannot afford large ones There may be a unit conversion problem here, but an apartment as small as 500Sqft apartment would be exceedingly rare - that's ~46.5Sq/m. Many cities don't even allow apartments that small...
- jsight 10y agoI am also in the 99% of America where ordinary people can afford more than 500 square feet of living space. I just have a good router and fiber to the home. :) I suspect that your biggest problem is really just your terrible ISP. I've had that problem before too, but my current one is great (and local).
- Johnny555 10y agoHaving a big house doesn't mean that you can't use Wifi, it just takes more planning and care in placement of the nodes. I serve my 1200 sq ft condo with a single node, and it gets good coverage throughout the space, including the front/back patios. My parent's 2400 sq ft house took 2 nodes in the attic + one in the back of the garage to cover the back yard. They can hit their ISP's 150mbit/second cap from anywhere in the house or yard. They use tablets almost exclusively and though dad still uses a laptop from time to time, he has no desire to plug it into ethernet, so a wired network wouldn't really be useful for them.
- Zach_the_Lizard 10y ago> No, I live in the 99% of America where ordinary people can afford more than 500 square feet of living space. If I crunched the numbers correctly, roughly 2.5% of the US population lives in NYC alone. If you add in Boston, DC, San Francisco and other expensive cities I'd bet you can break 10% of the population in the core expensive cities alone. 80% of Americans live in an urban area.
- stcredzero 10y agoStreaming is one thing. Gaming is another. Dropped packets and big outliers of latency are a huge pain for game developers.
- jsight 10y agoI game on it as well. Granted, I'm not so big into FPS that a trivial increase in latency matters that much. The times that I do play FPS games, they are fine, though.
- stcredzero 10y agoFor everyone one of you, there seems to be someone who will be put out by the poor performance of a game over crappy wifi, then blame the game.