 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | reply to ISurfTooMuch
Re: Some devices are better off without wireless said by ISurfTooMuch:An even better solution would be to simply wire new homes and apartments with Ethernet. It's common practice in offices, and with all these new networked devices, it ought to be just as common in homes. Couple problems with this:
- fails to account for existing construction
- fails to account for longevity of physical plant
You might say "tough" on existing housing. Whatever: I'll buy that.
The real problem comes in with longevity of physical plant. It wasn't too many years ago that I wired my house for 100Mbps Ethernet. Now, I would need to rewire everything to 1Gbps. In a few years, I'd need to rerewire everything as 10Gbps (etc.). With wireless, I just pop in the next generation of WiFi and my network is running at a higher speed - no rewiring necessary. It's likely to be in this area that wifi will prove a far better consumer solution.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by nixen:The real problem comes in with longevity of physical plant. It wasn't too many years ago that I wired my house for 100Mbps Ethernet. Now, I would need to rewire everything to 1Gbps. In a few years, I'd need to rerewire everything as 10Gbps (etc.). With wireless, I just pop in the next generation of WiFi and my network is running at a higher speed - no rewiring necessary. It's likely to be in this area that wifi will prove a far better consumer solution. "next generation" of wifi is the last generation of wired. New products will always be developed on a 2 CPU Quad core Xeon machine with a 10 gigabit PCIE ethernet card. Its fast on that so execs greenlight it, but its crap when you take into the real world.
It took 7 years to get 100mbit ethernet over wireless. How many years will it take to reach 1 gigabit? By then all desktops will have 10 gigabit. Gotta stream Quad Digital Cinema. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | said by patcat88:"next generation" of wifi is the last generation of wired. New products will always be developed on a 2 CPU Quad core Xeon machine with a 10 gigabit PCIE ethernet card. Its fast on that so execs greenlight it, but its crap when you take into the real world. It took 7 years to get 100mbit ethernet over wireless. How many years will it take to reach 1 gigabit? By then all desktops will have 10 gigabit. Gotta stream Quad Digital Cinema. And that's fine for the people that own their homes and want to rewire things every X years as a DIY project. Most homeowners, however, aren't going to want to do it - especially if they have to pay for labor on top of the physical media. And for apartment dwellers (a large segment of the population), rewiring is simply out of the question. So, regardless how far WiFi lags wired, WiFi is going to be the more popular solution.
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