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Are most of you wired or using wifi?
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Everything is wifi here
no issues at all. Internet is plenty fast for video streaming and Xbox cloud gaming. Plex streaming, file sharing, Time Machine backups from room to room work fine
Furthest device from the router is MBP when it’s in clamshell mode at my desk and it gets 500 - 600 Mbps with AdGuard running on the router and also going through taliscale
Don’t see any real need to wire anything
no issues at all. Internet is plenty fast for video streaming and Xbox cloud gaming. Plex streaming, file sharing, Time Machine backups from room to room work fine
Furthest device from the router is MBP when it’s in clamshell mode at my desk and it gets 500 - 600 Mbps with AdGuard running on the router and also going through taliscale
Don’t see any real need to wire anything
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Sure, everyone’s setups are different, for me/us, we don’t share any data so every device is on its own so to speak…
Y'all got simple setups 🤪
My home network has 4 switches, 6APs, 3VLANs, 3WLANs (not same as VLAN). Mac mini 2018 VM-server, QNap NAS, printer.
Since going 10GBit is too expensive, the uplinks between switches are "just" LAGs with dual 1GBit, between the outhouse (server room and incoming fiber) and main house, dual color SFPs to run on just 2 fibers.
23 wired and 23 wireless clients.
Got an always-up VPN connection to work as one of the VLAN/WLANs so I don't mix work computers and private stuff.
Complicated? You bet
but hey, if it is your profession...
My home network has 4 switches, 6APs, 3VLANs, 3WLANs (not same as VLAN). Mac mini 2018 VM-server, QNap NAS, printer.
Since going 10GBit is too expensive, the uplinks between switches are "just" LAGs with dual 1GBit, between the outhouse (server room and incoming fiber) and main house, dual color SFPs to run on just 2 fibers.
23 wired and 23 wireless clients.
Got an always-up VPN connection to work as one of the VLAN/WLANs so I don't mix work computers and private stuff.
Complicated? You bet
but hey, if it is your profession...wired 1.21 gigawatts
but I know some people just don't care, a person I know has an ethernet port right next to their Mac and they still use wifi, to them is no difference no matter what you tell them
but I know some people just don't care, a person I know has an ethernet port right next to their Mac and they still use wifi, to them is no difference no matter what you tell them
Punch cards for me between 1971 to 1977, then 8" floppies in 1982. First "on-line" experience was 45bps on RTTY with someone 6,000 miles away. First telephone modem was 2400bps. I now supposedly have 2Gbps fiber, limited by my current router only supporting 1Gbps Ethernet - plan on getting a 2.5G router soon.
I do wired interface whenever practical, the Mini is connected by Ethernet and use a wired interface for the keyboard and trackpad. I opted for the 10G port on my new Mini to accommodate a higher speed on my fiber connection with the 1G to 2G boost being announced after I ordered the Mini.
Even a 1 Gb Ethernet installation can be faster than a multi gig wireless due to the non-blocking nature of traffic through a switch.
10E9 watts, 1,000 megawatts, 1,000,000 kilowatts. The 1.21GW number was from Back to the Future and about what the UCB TRIGA was capable of doing when pulsed. The latter was really spectacular to see.
And what was Marty’s reaction when told they needed 1.21GW to restart the flux capacitor?
(10e9 watts is 10GW.)
I get 800+ Mbit/s over WiFi at the worst at home so I don’t feel the need to bother with cables.
Back then, floppy disks were in the future. 300 bps was plenty to drive a 30 character per second teleprinter.
My M1 mini and 14" MBP are hardwired to my gigabit connection, giving about 950 Mbit/s on average. I get 600 Mbit/s over wifi but the latency is noticeably higher, so when connecting to remote servers the difference between WiFi and Ethernet is very noticeable even though the measured speeds are both more than fast enough.
Wired. No hardwired cat cables, but using Powerline ethernet adapters which utilise normal house wiring. Just got standard fibre so probably averaging around 60mbps.
I prefer wired connections and as my M2 Mini has had issues with Wi-Fi anyway I tend to avoid using it. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it can really struggle to get a useable connection. I believe it's to do with connected device cable interference. I have two external drives connected and once when Wi-Fi really dropped I disconnected the drives, restarted and speed was back up. When taking the Mini with me on holiday, I've found it really struggles if Wi-Fi signal is not strong. With weak signal and slow broadband, where a smartphone could pick up enough to do basic browsing, the Mini couldn't get enough to even load a webpage.
I prefer wired connections and as my M2 Mini has had issues with Wi-Fi anyway I tend to avoid using it. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it can really struggle to get a useable connection. I believe it's to do with connected device cable interference. I have two external drives connected and once when Wi-Fi really dropped I disconnected the drives, restarted and speed was back up. When taking the Mini with me on holiday, I've found it really struggles if Wi-Fi signal is not strong. With weak signal and slow broadband, where a smartphone could pick up enough to do basic browsing, the Mini couldn't get enough to even load a webpage.
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Back in the early eighties I was using a PDP-11 with 300 acoustic coupler. When we were uploading text, the joke was that we could see the characters forming on the VT100's screen.300bps here, and acoustic couplers
that all worked fine for ASCII transfers ...
All Wifi in da House but i have a wonderful responsive Asus Mesh with 3 to 5 ms response Time (1Gbit Backbone Cat 6 Cable FTTH 250Mbit Wifi6e) so that even my Gaming Teen Kids are using all Wifi with their Nasa PC´s and yes it is very Fast.
I can also run my UTM Ubuntu Server VM FQDN on my MBA M2 via Wifi and DMZ.
I can also run my UTM Ubuntu Server VM FQDN on my MBA M2 via Wifi and DMZ.
Wi-Fi. Wired access is +20' (straight line - double that if along wall). Service is 100 / 50 Mbps and I get that (or better) using Wi-Fi (5G), so really two reasons not to rely on hardwiring.
All fixed devices are wired ethernet: Macs, AppleTVs, home theater equipment.
I'm wired gigabit ethernet to my primary Apple TV and the Macs on the desk with my router. The remainder of my devices are WiFi. If I need to for downloading iPad OS updates or large content files, I can always take the ethernet adapter I use for the MBP on my desk and use it with the M4 iPad Pro.