Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just gonna ignore those real-world examples and insist on fantasy land, eh?

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• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • gaael@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t most of (maybe all) dell and lenovo laptops come with ethernet ports by default ?

      Nope. Ethernet ports are gone. >

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Assumptions, assumptions… My company is a communications company and actually produces networking equipment. Almost no one uses Ethernet because we have the knowledge and experience to implement reliable wifi. Perhaps your company should hire us since they’ve done such a bad job with their own implementation.

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• olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wireless is always better than no connection at all if you need a connection and you’re not wired.

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• bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok Zoomer.

    We’re talking about offices where people generally use laptops for work. Why are you mentioning mobiles?

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    • bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What if I want to move my laptop around the office, say for example to make a presentation, or work in a different area? If I’m just working on some documents online, I don’t need a fast connection, just 30-50Mbit is plenty enough for pretty much everything, including video calls etc

      And what you’re telling me you never use a mobile at work? You still need a signal to make/receive regular phone calls

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s true, which is why the article mentions one of the things googlers are doing is using their phone as a hotspot.

        Y’see the phone gets it’s internet from the cell tower. It then passes the internet to the laptop via a local (i.e. 2 feet) wifi or bluetooth connection.

        That’s an entirely different thing than enterprise-wide wifi. And if the building was blocking cell phone signals - well, first of all I’d be impressed, and secondly they would tear it down.

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