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I was cursing on my ISP for a long time till I understood that Im on a 100Mbit wifi. Then added a wire connection to my server and instantly 10x the speed :^]

by pojzon 5y ago

I was cursing on my ISP for a long time till I understood that Im on a 100Mbit wifi. Then added a wire connection to my server and instantly 10x the speed :^] Dont be like me, have wires set up everywhere where needed.

vmception 5y ago
My local wifi is faster than my 1gb/s ethernet. This holds true in the same room and one room over. I like this.
- KerrAvon 5y ago
  If you’re happy, great. But you might want to figure out what’s interfering with your wired bandwidth, because wired 1G ethernet should basically win every time compared to current WiFi standards. Maybe not ax under ideal conditions. But that’s a maybe.
  - vmception 5y ago
    1G ethernet is 125 megabytes (spelled out to avoid acronym ambiguity) per second 802.11ax is much faster than that, my wifi router is good for 1.5G or so while the protocol allows for 3.5G or so and my file transfer speeds are easily more than 125 megabytes per second I’m not going to run more wires either way So……. you sure I should care? Its great fast speeds that scale to the file sizes I want to handle, which are pretty large for prosumer needs.
    - Jolter 5y ago
      I won’t dispute your numbers, but have you measured latency and jitter? Some people who like to call themselves hard-core gamers care a lot about those metrics, and Wi-Fi has historically been pretty abysmal at latency. I don’t know if the latest standards have caught up with wired yet.
caymanjim 5y ago
Wires are great, and I try to use them when possible, but you can saturate most home Internet with decent midrange WiFi hardware. I get over 1Gbps between local machines just using the stock Comcast/Xfinity WAP, and about 330Mbps to the Internet (capped by service plan). I splurged a little on a ~$120 4-antenna NIC but even my cheap older ones can saturate the WAN link.
tomschwiha 5y ago
Reminds me of buying a 144Hz monitor but not enabling 144Hz-mode..

by pojzon 5y ago

vmception 5y ago

My local wifi is faster than my 1gb/s ethernet. This holds true in the same room and one room over. I like this.

KerrAvon 5y ago
If you’re happy, great. But you might want to figure out what’s interfering with your wired bandwidth, because wired 1G ethernet should basically win every time compared to current WiFi standards. Maybe not ax under ideal conditions. But that’s a maybe.
- vmception 5y ago
  1G ethernet is 125 megabytes (spelled out to avoid acronym ambiguity) per second 802.11ax is much faster than that, my wifi router is good for 1.5G or so while the protocol allows for 3.5G or so and my file transfer speeds are easily more than 125 megabytes per second I’m not going to run more wires either way So……. you sure I should care? Its great fast speeds that scale to the file sizes I want to handle, which are pretty large for prosumer needs.
  - Jolter 5y ago
    I won’t dispute your numbers, but have you measured latency and jitter? Some people who like to call themselves hard-core gamers care a lot about those metrics, and Wi-Fi has historically been pretty abysmal at latency. I don’t know if the latest standards have caught up with wired yet.

caymanjim 5y ago

Wires are great, and I try to use them when possible, but you can saturate most home Internet with decent midrange WiFi hardware. I get over 1Gbps between local machines just using the stock Comcast/Xfinity WAP, and about 330Mbps to the Internet (capped by service plan). I splurged a little on a ~$120 4-antenna NIC but even my cheap older ones can saturate the WAN link.

tomschwiha 5y ago

Reminds me of buying a 144Hz monitor but not enabling 144Hz-mode..