No wireless or Bluetooth, not a major deal. I put a USB bluetooth dongle
on and I've got ethernet.
MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
No wireless or Bluetooth, not a major deal. I put a USB bluetooth dongle
on and I've got ethernet.
no, you have wifi.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to MRO <=-
MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
No wireless or Bluetooth, not a major deal. I put a USB bluetooth dongle
on and I've got ethernet.
no, you have wifi.
You misunderstood. I have wired ethernet, so I don't need wireless.
Weatherman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
You have bluetooth wireless AND you have ethernet. I prefer a wired connection myself, all my PCs are 1000BaseT ethernet as well. Well, except for my C128, THAT is on a WiFi modem....
I've posted before about this - I limped along for a bunch of years on powerline adapters. The connection from my router to the BBS got close
to 150 mbps, but my office only got around 30 mbps.
About a year ago, I paid to have a couple of CAT6 runs put in between my bedroom and home office, and ditched wifi for my workflows. I'll never
go back.
I remember wiring offices where we had 4 Cat5 connectors and 2 voice connectors at 100+ locations - my last office had 4-5 ethernet drops and *everything* was wifi.
Tracker1 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
the wifi6 throughput has mostly obviated the urgency. I've tried powerline adapters before, but wasn't much better than 802.11g wifi in
my experience.
candycane wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Did they not want to wire everything?
Did they not want to wire everything?
For a small 20-30 person office, they didn't see any need. I didn't miss wired ethernet much, I had a wired port for imaging PCs and that was it.
My house has two breaker boxes. The cable modem and the BBS were on one box, and powerline was good for around 200 mbps on a speedtest. My
office was on the second box, and I was lucky if I got 30-40. Lots of interference, too - when I put up Christmas lights, my throughput would drop.
The other benefit to running ethernet was being able to set up an AP on the office end to act as a 4-port switch and a wireless repeater.
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