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0 pointscom2kid2y ago0 comments

My smartphone does not have an ethernet port. :)

My house came wired for cat5 (the original cat5!) but modern wifi is a lot faster than 100mbps, so I just use wifi for everything.

Latency is higher, but so is the speed.

Also I only own 1 desktop that has an ethernet port, and I haven't plugged the desktop in for 2 years.

I would actually like to have the TV hooked up to ethernet, since its wifi chip crashes every few days and I have to power cycle wifi in settings, but whoever wired the house for cat5 didn't install ports anywhere, although they did install a large patch panel in the basement, but I have better things to do than crimp a bunch of wires to fix one flaky connection.

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Marsymars2y ago

That's the nifty thing about my second point, with a mesh network - if you put your mesh APs in spots where you have a bunch of wired-capable devices, you can plug everything into the mesh AP and then all the data runs over the mesh AP's high-end radios.

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