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1. At this point I don't think 10Gbps NICs are worth that much on the second hand market. Most of the cost will be in the wiring. In WiFi most of the cost would
by Bayart 6y ago
1. At this point I don't think 10Gbps NICs are worth that much on the second hand market. Most of the cost will be in the wiring. In WiFi most of the cost would be in the router and APs.
2. Wired is far more reliable than wireless in urban settings. You just don't have to deal with overlapping channels, physical barriers, dropped packets, concurrency between devices etc. You might get away with free real estate on 5Ghz+ nowadays but that's going to change as the ISP-provided equipment rotates.
I get a lot of wireless myself because I live in the middle of nowhere, without a single other Wifi AP in detectable range and the inner walls of my house are pretty thin. In that context, with a well configured router, I get extremely stable wireless connections with low latency (<1ms router<->NIC).
But in a city apartment I'd rather have the old 10m Ethernet cable cutting across the living-room.
- cogman10 6y agoThe biggest problem I run into with 10Gbps ethernet is finding a consumer grade switch that supports it. You are pretty much limited to commercial offerings.
- Bayart 6y agoMikrotik makes "reasonably" priced switches if you want brand new networking equipment for the home (with warranties, support etc.). But yeah it's not stuff you'd find on your ISP-provided whitelabel 15€ all-in-one box. It's just one of these things. People who know they need 10Gpbs LAN are already completely outside of the scope of regular consumer use.
- jeffbee 6y agoSwitch availability is a big part of it. For my purposes at home, I've got two adjacent computers wired directly together with 10g, then wired over 1g to a wifi access point and router.
- fomine3 6y agoI live in house with similar situation, but I still prefer wired over wireless. It's rock solid and pretty stable.