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Old March 17th 19, 10:48 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Reason *TO* pick on Windows 10

In article , Jonathan N. Little
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Well now. I have had to remove folks trying to network Quickbooks
with wireless and put them on wired. Anything data intensive, wireless
sucks.


nonsense. wifi works exceptionally well, regardless of data intensity.


In reality Quickbooks sucks on a network regardless wire/wireless,but
that is beside the point.


quickbooks sucks in many ways, but as you say, that's not the point.

A wired connection in real life gives you a
more consistent reliable signal period. A the frequency goes up to
increase bandwidth the shorter the range and the more susceptible the
wireless signal becomes. Just a fact.


wireless is *extremely* reliable, sometimes more reliable than wired.

ask comcast users how often their *wired* internet goes out. it's not
good. weekly glitches are common, if not expected, sometimes daily.

after a fibre cut last year, *cellular* was the fallback:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...across-the-us-
due-to-cut-fiber-cables/
(CNN Money) ‹ Comcast customers across the United States experienced
a massive internet, cable TV, and telephone outage on Friday.
....
Customers took to their cellphones and mobile devices to complain
vociferously on Twitter. Some reported difficulty getting through to
Comcast customer service. The company took to Twitter to provide
updates and urge customers not to call 911.

and that was actually the *second* outage that *month*:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...fects-phones-a
n-internet/
The outage on*Friday, June 29, follows an outage from earlier this
month that took down Comcast Business Voice and VoiceEdge Select
services.

which one is best for a given situation depends on many factors and
blindly picking wired (or wireless) is foolish.

Now from a radio design engineers standpoint, wireless was
designed to be the last mile. Not a real mile, but
to places where wires can't reach. So you put an access point
as close as possible to the receiver.


obviously, except that those access points might also be wireless,
otherwise known as mesh.

they also might not be particularly close, such as with cellular
towers, which can be several miles away in rural areas.


Having really world experience with 5GHz wireless Internet can confirm
that my 5-12 mbps connection could suddenly drop to 0 to 100 kbsp randomly.


are you talking about wifi or a wireless isp?

5ghz is much too low for quality wireless internet, so it's not
surprising you had problems.

that doesn't mean *all* wireless is flawed.

most wisps use 30 ghz and higher, offering up to gigabit speeds,
without wires and with high reliability.

Being an extremely lucky rural US resident my rural electric coop
company decided to pull this area out of 3-world-status and also give a
Verizon the middle-finger-salute, (like they're building out any FIOS
now), and I have now had a FTTP connection for the last few days. There
is NO comparison for connection stability. Even when I had slow DSL the
connection was more stable than this wireless. The only advantage to
wireless is not have to route wires.


that is a significant advantage, especially when it doesn't impact
bandwidth.

BTW as part of the deal for deregulation 25 years ago the telcos
*promised* us a fiber-optic "Information Superhighway" in less than 10
years...


fibre is available in a lot of places, but with gigabit lte now and 5g
soon, along with gigabit wisps, there's little need for that anymore.
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