I’ve never been a router in my life!
This just reaks of someone who’s never had good hardware.
A properly rolled out network can supply reliable wifi that’s just as reliable for consumer and even prosumer grade tasks as hardline.
Hell even recent improvements to wireless backhaul has basically obsoleted the need to run a cable to every single room you want reliable Internet in.
Unless your doing something that actually NEEDS the speed cables provide over wireless then there’s no real benefit other then it being cheaper.
Just stop being 60 dollar shitty all in one routers.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s often not a matter of speed but of reliability.
Simple fact is, there are very few occasions where you truly need more than 10Mbps or so, which can handle 1080p, or 25 for 4k.
High speeds are great for the infrequent download, but for most day-to-day internet tasks…it’s largely unnoticed.
The real killer of wifi is latency, jitter, and loss. And these will present themselves as slowdowns when browsing or low-quality video when streaming…but on a sensitive application (gaming, real-time voice/video, many enterprise/corporate VPNs, especially under heavy use). And there’s tons of factors that go into causing these conditions on wireless that are simply not a concern on wired.