On 2019-03-13, nospam wrote:
that's quite short and will render a laptop immobile. it's barely long
enough to go behind a desk.

I have seen many instances where laptops are installed in situations
where there is limited desk space, and a wired connection is used. (Such
machines are rarely if ever used on battery either, so battery life
is not considered when purchasing.) Portability is only one reason to
choose a laptop, not the only one.

the reality is that wireless is as fast or faster than wired (assuming
gigabit), comparable in reliability and unlike wired, encrypted.

That has not been my experience and if you are on an open connection
it is not encrypted. (At least not until WPA3 is widely adopted.) Also
WPA2 is fairly easy to crack at this point. To "hack" a wired connection
you need to be physically present to jack into the network.

I typically see connection speed of 300-700 megabits on wireless-AC.
Pretty good but still not as fast as a wired gigabit connection.
Doesn't make much difference for most internet use. It does make a
difference when transferring large files between your PC and a local
server or if your use case requires the least possible latency.

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