> As for your ethernet example, that's too bad. Wifi capabilities will get better for every year that passes, too. I beg to differ. I've gone from 802.11g to n

> As for your ethernet example, that's too bad. Wifi capabilities will get better for every year that passes, too. I beg to differ. I've gone from 802.11g to n to ac and I've yet to see any noticeable gains bringing me even close to plain old Gigabit ethernet. It cannot compete nor compare when it comes down to even individual aspects: reliability, individual throughput, total throughput (due to shared medium access), nor setup speeds. I'm not just talking "a little bit slower". I'm talking 1 minute guaranteed to succeed (ethernet), vs 1 hour guaranteed to fail (wifi). In real world performance, it's orders of magnitudes slower. That's measurable. That's a fact. For lots of use-cases wifi is utterly useless. Have fun trying to backup media to a iSCSI volume over wifi for instance. I'm guessing you don't live in a heavily populated area where the wifi-bands are over-consumed and have little more effective BW than 25mbps to offer. The same crap I was promised would improve half a decade ago. It haven't. A huge part of the tech-hungry power-users lives in these places and suffers through this subpar performance. We're not happy with mediocre wifi to cover our needs.