I feel wifi is more simple though? No need to run cables through walls, or worse, out in the open or use additional equipment like switches. Just plug it in and connect.
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Wifi is adding more steps, hence less simple from the perspective of the network. Walls and such being in the way do add complexity, but the wire won't notice that it's going trough a wall.
Is it more simple in that it requires less physical stuff. Sure. But it's impossible to get the wifi to be as good as wired provided you're jacked into the modem (switch) itself.
It can get almost as good though with modern tech.
I'm limited by my ether port and switch to Gigabit, usually ~950 Mbps, but I can get ~1100 Mbps, which is the ISPs limit, over WiFi. So if you only have Gigabit ethernet components, but a bit over Gigabit internet, WiFi can be faster. Not nearly as stable, though.
I don't need as good. What am I going to do with 1Gb/s? My internet is 100Mb/s
The connection in the other room has 1-2ms delay. The wired connection has 0.5ms delay so it's not even a full 1 ms advantage in latency.
Wired has much more stable latency though. Matters for online games.
The highest ping is like 3 ms, that's not going to make a difference when my ping is 120ms. Let me remind you the pings over the wire can spike a millisecond too
Not while it's within my house it can't. Packets can get lost just going to the router over wifi.
They can, but they don't. I pinged for an hour and didn't lose any
That does depend heavily on the RF environment you're in. If your house is more remote and not surrounded by other wifi networks it will be pretty stable, plenty good enough for online gaming.
Oof, apartment dweller, right in the WiFi 6.
Looooooooong cable XD
Long looong caaaaaaaaableeeeee *rips cable lengthwise*
Cable routing tubes on the walls, too
Snaky boi