I too, enjoy plugging a USB-C to A adapter into my Android phone so I can use an ethernet to USB adapter. :P
More seriously, two of the hard requirements of my house was fiber connection available from the ISP to the house and wired ethernet to the major rooms.
Wired Ethernet to every room should be in the building code
LABELED wired ethernet
But we're already starting to reach Ethernet Caps couldn't we just say networking < 1gbps so we don't end up with a bunch of phone Jacks nobody wants?
Yeah, when we bought our home and the ISP guy was setting up the fiber line, he asked if I worked from home. I said yes and that I used one of the bedrooms as an office. He asked if I wanted to have the hole from the outside drilled into the room since some people who WFH had requirements to be on a wired connection. I personally didn’t have that requirement, and I also wanted my router as close to the modem as possible while being in the middle of the house. So it ended up being in the living room. It would’ve been convenient if there were built-in ports in all the rooms, even though wifi is fine for my home office.
I wonder how hard it would be to run a cable between the bedroom and the router
It’s not, and I never said it was hard. I just said it would’ve been convenient to have the cabling already in the walls, so I don’t have to bother running it along the wall and/or hiding it to keep it neat.
I have 10Gb wired into my smart toilet
What does your toilet need internet for?
Webcams
No need to eat so much fiber and also I tend to shitpost a lot
I call it WLAN, since WiFi is a brand name.
We are not the same.
IEEE 802.11 enjoyers rise up
Still rocking my 802.11b dongle. I get a full 1mb occasionally
"How come you haven't upgraded your home network to wi-fi6?"
Because my ethernet is four times as fast for all the shit I need. (Although, realistically it maxes out at 8gbit)
Wi-Fi is bad for me because the alternative is mobile data.
I live in Australia where the broadband speeds are 12.5 to 100Mbps.
Like 15 years behind much of the world.
And still 15 years ahead of my city in statesia
What shithole city still doesn’t have fiber? I get gigabit symmetrical in rural ass wisconsin
I KNOW RIGHT I HAVE BEEN YELLING AT THE PHONE THE CITY AND THE CLOUDS OVER THIS FOR OVER A DECADE
i'm in the godsdamned san francisco bay area and my uppy rarely goes over 20 it's a shame
?? the australian govenment just upgraded everyone who was on 100mbps to 500mbps and everyone on 50mbps to 500mbps. Also there are 1gig and 2 gig plans available.
I will agree, the situation is getting better.
But we could have had even better than that 5 years ago if the government hadn't thrown away a perfectly good upgrade plan to spend more money on copper.
Yeah it is true.
It's still really a matter of whether or not you're lucky enough to have had FTTP rollout. My local HFC node's been having issues ever since that upgrade, now they've just had me capped at 65Mbps for about 6 weeks. NBNco silent, RSP won't do anything, fixed wireless & 5g already oversaturated. Inner metro area.
Dang that sucks. I've got hfc too but it's working really well for me, I get a stable 500mbps when on ethernet.
For some areas and not everyone. Turnbull fucked us.
Not-wired connections are always and without exception a workaround for devises where it is impossible or impractical to use a wired connection with.
Ethernet is good Internet to you because the alternative is WiFi.
Ethernet is bad Internet to me because the alternative is DWDM 800G per wavelength
We're all the same.
Ethernet means good internet to you because the alternative is wifi.
Ethernet means bad Internet to me because the alternative is fiber.
We are not the same.
Fiber optic Ethernet…
Wi-Fi doesn't mean Internet at all.
It's just a wireless connection to other devices, one of which almost always (in colloquial use anyway) is a modem that has Internet access.
But it is not, in and of itself, a connection to the Internet.
Talk to me when you get a station wagon plebs
As someone who has struggled with various forms of WiFi for a good three decades, WiFi can just fuck all the way off to the ninth circle of hell.
Even the rolling gut on my house has Cat7 planned beside every knee-level power plug in every room, with at least one fiber drop in every room as a high-bandwidth option. And my security will be 100% PoE on an airgapped network.
Hardlining really is the only way to network.
How are you supposed to surf the internet without an Ethernet cable to surf on? 🏄 or worse, no Dial-up jam to dance to
I get 50 GB mobile data for 7 € every month. I wouldn’t even need WiFi for most cases. Only to save phone battery and download heavy stuff
You can get mobile wifi, which can be good internet.
huh? mobile hotspot is double-bad
Not hotspot mobile internet. Where a dedicated simcard goes into a router
a wifi access point that gets online via a cellular network is called a mobile hotspot, regardless of if it's running on a phone or a dedicated router device
Good enough t for browsing and watching stand, maybe. Good for games? Not a chance in hell.