Wireless is a trap

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Wired networks are always going to be faster. You take a hit in performance going wireless but for most consumers at least, it is always worth it.

[–]Southbound06 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A wired network is always a good idea to run routers and APs together. A hardwired network backbone will always be faster than a wireless bridge. But unless you're doing things like mass computation or video editing off a NAS server, Wireless is almost always "fast enough" if you don't have a NAS to regularly access and if you don't care about latency all that much. I use WiFi on everything except for my servers. I have no complaints in terms of performance. IMO this "wireless is slow" business is a tad overblown. Yes, there's truth behind it, but I'm not convinced something like my laptop needs an Ethernet cable plugged in at all times, or that my gaming PC needs its own cable run to lower my latency by 1-2 ms