I'm observing a conversation where some seems to sincerely, non-trollingly believe that Wi-Fi is as fast or faster than wired Ethernet, and I'm shaking my head in disbelief.
Wi-Fi is the equivalent of plugging all your devices into a single hub that's shared with everyone within 100ft of your house.
@tek there's some extreme examples where this could be true though right?
@falken Hypothetically, Wi-Fi 7 can go up to like 50Gbps or something wild like that.
In practice, I can't get more than 1Gb in my own house unless I'm sitting right next to the AP and my neighbor isn't microwaving their dinner.
Under perfect conditions, inside a Faraday cage with zero outside interference, and ideal hardware, and perfect alignment of the radios, for perfect positioning... then, and only then, might it be not worse than Ethernet.
@falken @tek
> Under perfect conditions, inside a Faraday cage with zero outside interference, and ideal hardware, and perfect alignment of the radios, for perfect positioning...
So, basically, a long piece of electromagnetically transparent medium with total internal reflection, or at least an insulated copper conductor?