In article , Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

It's silly to use wireless
if you don't have to.

As a Radio Design engineer before doing this stuff, I can
only say "well stated"

I wish you guys were around when I was arging this general topic with
nospam in re.photo.digital.

what you were arguing about was based on your very outdated 10 year old
802.11n 1x1 router, which can do about 70mb/s on a good day.

your mistake is assuming that because your setup is slow, all wifi is
slow. that is simply not true.

modern wifi equipment is substantially faster than what you have.

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/imag...sus_rtac86u/as
us_rtac86u_5ghz_peak_dn.jpg

Put a wall or two between and I will challenge you to the speed verses
my cable to my 1G switch...

this is about maximum speed, not a contrived scenario, but regardless,
802.11ax through a wall, will still be faster than gigabit to the next
room, or skip the wifi and use gigabit lte or even faster 5g (when it's
deployed).

you'd also need to drill a hole in the wall or run cables along the
floor, which is not always an option, and if you're going to do that,
then for a fair comparison, there should be a wifi mesh unit in each
room.

Also for folks who live in more densely packed domiciles like apartment
buildings where SSIDs swarm like gnats...

that's not an issue for a properly configured wifi network.

and then there's the convenience of wireless.

Basically the only thing in the plus column.

which is a *huge* plus, something which you are ignoring.