It’s absolutely making do. Having to plug an Ethernet cable in every time you take your laptop to someone else’s office, break room or conference room simply doesn’t work.
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Make do” with ethernet? Charlie Brown, ethernet is the superior networking interface. People “make do” with wifi.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s when you make do with WiFi.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You do know that laptops no longer even come with those “make do” Ethernet ports, right?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You do know that most places use docking stations that connect laptops to multiple screens and… you guessed it… ethernet.
shasta@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah if you are forced to deal with a shitty Apple
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
it’s called a “dongle” and it’s named after a guy named don. No srs look it up.
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wireless sucks. Wired is always better.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Just gonna ignore those real-world examples and insist on fantasy land, eh?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Moan and groan all you like, it doesn’t change the fact that wireless is almost always an option and wired is almost never an option.
Even desktop PCs come with wifi adapters. Finding a laptop with an Ethernet port is damn near impossible.
gaael@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t most of (maybe all) dell and lenovo laptops come with ethernet ports by default ?
And nowadays, with thunderbolt docking stations, you have more or less every connection available anyway.homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If ethernet is not an option, you’re just wasting time. Ethernet-to-USB dongles are cheap and plentiful.
It’s crazy that people with no experience with it have no idea why anyone would want to fuss with a direct wired connection when it’s objectively faster and more stable in every metric possible.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wireless is always better than no connection at all if you need a connection and you’re not wired.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can’t realistically plug your phone into the wall every time you want to use the internet
The whole point of a mobile phone is that it’s mobile
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ok Zoomer.
We’re talking about offices where people generally use laptops for work. Why are you mentioning mobiles?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Conference rooms, yes. Break rokms, yes. Offices? No. Use a docking station? Are you working solely from your laptop screen or do you dock and use monitors mouse and keyboard? Generally, there’s ethernet attached, too.
boonhet@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Conference rooms should have ethernet connected to the USB-C dongle that’s attached to the TV and the Jabra or whatever alternative you use.
Wouldn’t want to take my laptop to the break room, I go there to take a break from work, not continue it in a different setting.
I’ll agree on going to someone else’s office, or using your laptop in a meeting where someone else is connected up, but that’s where Wi-Fi works as the back-up.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Lol! One Ethernet cable in a conference room? What if someone else is using it? Next you’ll proudly state that you carry an Ethernet switch everywhere you go. But, you be you.
boonhet@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I just said wifi works as the backup solution if you’re not the one presenting. If you ARE the one presenting, wouldn’t you want to have a more stable connection?
marcos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, but tell that again when you and 19 other people bring your laptop to a conference room and try to login on the network at the same time.
Different things have different strengths, and losing one of those things means your experience will be subpar.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So, I haven’t worked in IT in a couple decades, but back in the late '90s/ early '00s, all the conference tables at the companies I worked for, had Ethernet ports built into the table towards the center, and a switch mounted under the table so that everyone could just plug in. Did they stop making those tables once WiFi became ubiquitous?
marcos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, they stopped. The ports were never sufficient, people always wanted to move the table around, and the cables and connectors in the table were always breaking.
Besides, there are always people far from the table.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s true, they used to be more available and then they stopped making those tables for those reasons (and they were more expensive).
Yes, in a conference room setting with more than 3 people it’s better to have wifi, no disagreement there. In google’s case here it sounds like they’d bring a mobile hotspot in so everyone could see the documents together, which is not ideal but would work.
Still, they’d have ethernet for the video sharing so they could just put a router in each conference room (a huge pain to admin, but - it’s google) and everyone gets wifi in the conference room and no one is very slightly inconvenienced.
OR - y’know. Bring back the ethernet. Werd.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What do they think their precious wifi routers plug into?
An actual cloud?
When it rains are they terrified of losing their data?
twilightwolf90@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And a lot of people do. Cellular and satellite internet is excellent for rural and certain business use cases. I have gigabit fiber, and I’m considering one of those in case the Internet goes out if fiber is hit or if we lose utility power (I have a battery backup system).
Yes. Those folks are scared when it rains too hard. The connection does become more unstable.
I still acknowledge that your point is valid for everyone else however.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was just making a cartoonish joke about clouds leaking.
Wasnt thinking rain fade lol.
Contend6248@feddit.de 6 months ago
I’m enjoying ethernet on my phone too
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I can tell that you’re being sarcastic. But if I’m playing ranked match on my phone, it’s always with an Ethernet dongle. Way more reliable and definitely lower latency.
valkyre09@lemmy.world 6 months ago
People actually play competitive games in their phone? I thought that was just marketing spin so apple didn’t have to put graphics cards in their macs
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s hilarious that you insist on the ethernet cable but not an actual computer.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I don’t have a gaming computer (i7 3770K with integrated graphics from 2012)
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You don’t get cellular data? Okay, sure it’s faster for that too.
stoly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
lol your comment made people salty for some reason
Contend6248@feddit.de 6 months ago
Problem solved i guess, that’s progression.