Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoIn an end-user device? Yes, it’s irrelevant. Use wifi unless you have a special usecase.
Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoIn an end-user device? Yes, it’s irrelevant. Use wifi unless you have a special usecase.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wow, so gaming with reliable latency is a special usecase? Wi-Fi is awesome for convenience but it can never be better than wired because of physics.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes, yes it is. Most people couldn’t care less, they just want convenience.
What are the physics you’re talking about?
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wi-Fi is a shared medium where airtime is split amongst multiple clients on a radio spectrum that is open for all the public to use… Wired gives each device dedicated bandwidth with no interference. Wireless gets better and better, but it can never, and will never, be faster than a dedicated cable.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
None of that are physical limitations, it’s purely implementational. Legacy ethernet was half-duplex as well, before switching and dedicated pairs for tx/rx became the norm. And still handling the shared medium is done with CSMA-CA and not -CD, which was used for ethernet.
Copper is also susceptible to interference, both RFI and EMI. Sure you can mitigate the effect by shielding and having twisting the wire pairs with different amount of twists pr length. But in the end, copper is also susceptible to interference.
I’m not an RF engineer, and I don’t have an idea of what can be done to mitigate noise in wifi even further. But claiming that it’s an inherent physical limitation, that can’t be mitigated, that’s just defeatism. It’s about the implementation, not physical constraints.