Comment on But my WiFi is just fine!

• Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My canon ink tank type printer from mid COVID era is the same, didn’t realise it was only 10/100 on the wired port until I was looking at the switch one day and wondered why I had a yellow light instead of green, was about to run a new network cable until I checked the printer

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess you have to have a very particular workload, and printer, to need a gigabit line…

    Right?

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    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Casually printing highway ad posters at home, nothing special

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Printers really don’t need even 100mbps though. They’re just not fast enough to spit out the prints your sending even at those speeds. So I get it.

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    • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get it too, but it was a bit of a shock given that the selling points for everything is bigger better faster stronger, otherwise why would people upgrade. It’s like finding something with a micro USB port on it instead of type c

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