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>There's no "gotcha." That's the whole idea. Strange. I have closely inspected the box my wifi router came in, and I so far have failed to find "This is worse

>There's no "gotcha." That's the whole idea. Strange. I have closely inspected the box my wifi router came in, and I so far have failed to find "This is worse than wired ethernet" printed anywhere on it. Perhaps you could show me a single wifi AP, anywhere, where the ad copy says anything even remotely close to that.

aeturnum 6y ago
I think most routers promote how their wireless technology is different than older models (since that's what might cause users to buy a new router). But, for example, the Netgear Nighthawk[1] page spends a lot of ink advertising that it offers 1300+600 mb networking (whatever that means) and also notes that it offers 5 1000mb ethernet ports. Even without an understanding of the details of a common medium, 5000mb wired capacity is greater than 1900mb wireless. [1]https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000.aspx https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-router...
- sbierwagen 6y ago
  It advertises that it's faster, not that it's more reliable. A reasonable customer might extend their experience with other objects and conclude the faster mode is less reliable. A F1 car destroys its tires in hours, while wheels on a commuter car last for years, an overclocked processor is less stable than one at stock frequency, supersonic jet fighters kill their passengers at a rate thousands of times higher than subsonic commercial airflight, etc. Understanding that ethernet is entirely different from wifi requires... domain expertise! The exact thing a Best Buy customer won't have. >5000mb wired capacity A suspicious man might note that switching capacity isn't stated on that page, is not mentioned at all in the manual, and is the exact thing a manufacturer would be tempted to cut corners on, since vanishingly few customers will attempt multiple simultaneous network transfers in a home LAN. A normal consumer would never notice a switch capacity higher than 1 gigabit.

aeturnum 6y ago

I think most routers promote how their wireless technology is different than older models (since that's what might cause users to buy a new router). But, for example, the Netgear Nighthawk[1] page spends a lot of ink advertising that it offers 1300+600 mb networking (whatever that means) and also notes that it offers 5 1000mb ethernet ports. Even without an understanding of the details of a common medium, 5000mb wired capacity is greater than 1900mb wireless. [1]https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000.aspx https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-router...

sbierwagen 6y ago
It advertises that it's faster, not that it's more reliable. A reasonable customer might extend their experience with other objects and conclude the faster mode is less reliable. A F1 car destroys its tires in hours, while wheels on a commuter car last for years, an overclocked processor is less stable than one at stock frequency, supersonic jet fighters kill their passengers at a rate thousands of times higher than subsonic commercial airflight, etc. Understanding that ethernet is entirely different from wifi requires... domain expertise! The exact thing a Best Buy customer won't have. >5000mb wired capacity A suspicious man might note that switching capacity isn't stated on that page, is not mentioned at all in the manual, and is the exact thing a manufacturer would be tempted to cut corners on, since vanishingly few customers will attempt multiple simultaneous network transfers in a home LAN. A normal consumer would never notice a switch capacity higher than 1 gigabit.