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It's not just about what protocol you use, physical factors also come into play. If you're in an apartment, how noisy are your neighbors? If you're in a villa,
by Nullabillity 9y ago
It's not just about what protocol you use, physical factors also come into play. If you're in an apartment, how noisy are your neighbors? If you're in a villa, how far away are you, and how many walls are there in between?
Yes, Wi-Fi can have pretty decent bandwidth in the optimal case, but there are far too many uncontrollable variables for it to be possible to guarantee anything with it. It also makes perfect sense to want to exclude it as a variable before making a more thorough investigation.
If you bought a computer without Ethernet then that's on you, not your ISP. Fashion is not an excuse.
- gnicholas 9y agoDid you miss the part where I said it can move files internally perfectly fine? There is nothing wrong with the wifi, and it's bizarre to see someone on HN make such unjustified assumptions. Does it make sense to "exclude it as a variable before making a more thorough investigation"? Yes. But if Comcast sends out techs who do not have ethernet-equipped hardware (as I pointed out in my original post), then it's silly of them to expect customers to all have ethernet-equipped hardware. > Fashion is not an excuse Oversimplification is not an excuse either.