On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 02:41:13 -0700, crankypuss
wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 12/31/2015 07:48 PM, crankypuss wrote:
NY wrote:

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Thursday, December 31st, 2015, at 10:43:09h +0000, NY noted:

As you say, wireless is fine for almost all purposes

Never attempt firmware upgrades on devices connected by WiFi
and not ethernet.

Quite. And ideally, only update firmware if you have a fully-charged
battery or else are running off UPS-backed mains.

And we all follow that rule slavishly, don't we, children? :-)

I happen to follow it because there's really no choice; all of my
electricity is battery-backed, even when I'm running off generator
instead of solar. The wifi imprecation, not so much; wifi is about
the best connection I get unless I'm staying in a hotel that provides
an ethernet cable,

Thought of ethernet over powerline?

Powerline? We're totally offgrid, there is not a single cable or pipe
crossing our property-line.

The property line is irrelevant. All that matters is that you have some kind
of wire connecting two or more rooms in the house, whether it be electrical,
phone, or coax. Adapters exist for any of those.

I used powerline networking for years, first with a pair of *200 units and
later with a pair of *500 units. Both generally sucked. I'm currently using
coax (the adapters are Actiontec EBC6200 MOCA 2.0) and I consistently get
900+ megabits per second on file transfers. The best I ever saw with
powerline was about 120 Mbps, but 20-30 Mbps was much more typical.