or a landliner 😉
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.
Not-wired connections are always and without exception a workaround for devises where it is impossible or impractical to use a wired connection with.
“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.
?? 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.
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
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
I have 10Gb wired into my smart toilet
What does your toilet need internet for?
LABELED wired ethernet
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.
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?
I call it WLAN, since WiFi is a brand name.
We are not the same.
IEEE 802.11 enjoyers rise up
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…
Ethernet and fiber are not the same; they differ primarily in medium, speed, and distance capabilities. Ethernet typically uses copper cables to transmit electrical signals for short-range, local connections. Fiber uses glass strands to transmit light, offering much higher speeds, lower latency, and longer distances.
I wasted a gallon of water to have ai write that for you. Thanks
This guy had an AI write him slop that is unsurprisingly factually incorrect. How tragic.
It was a waste because twisted pair copper and fiber are mediums. Fiber optical networking has Ethernet standards such as 100BASE-FX, 1000BASE-SX/LX, 10GBASE-SR, and 10GBASE-LR.
How are you supposed to surf the internet without an Ethernet cable to surf on? 🏄 or worse, no Dial-up jam to dance to
Talk to me when you get a station wagon plebs
You can get mobile wifi, which can be good internet.
Good enough t for browsing and watching stand, maybe. Good for games? Not a chance in hell.
huh? mobile hotspot is double-bad
Not a hotspot, mobile internet. Where a dedicated simcard goes into dedicated router hardware.
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
