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- anyone that works from home and wants a 100% stable connection. - someone that lives in a large building with many adjacent access points all blasting on the
by lurking_swe 2y ago
- anyone that works from home and wants a 100% stable connection.
- someone that lives in a large building with many adjacent access points all blasting on the wifi spectrum, causing interference.
- latency sensitive applications. for example video chat works better. Gaming works better.
- gruez 2y agoGaming? Maybe, since some gamers are apparently willing to spend extra money on 5000hz mouse to shave <1ms of latency over a "normal" 1000hz gaming mouse. WFH? Probably not. Wifi adds maybe 5ms of avg latency with occasional 100ms spikes. Most video conferencing software introduce enough of a lag (through buffering, encoding, echo cancellation, noise suppression) that you won't notice the difference. Same goes for bandwidth. Video calls with screen sharing barely goes over 5Mb/s for me. You don't need fancy 10Gbe hardwired connection for that.
- lurking_swe 2y agoIt’s 5ms of average latency - under optimal conditions! Wifi latency can range anywhere from 5-50ms. Not everyone’s in a single family home, where there’s little interference. :) Wifi 7 is nice in that regard because the 6ghz band is barely used these days. I think ethernet is a nice to have, certainly not required.