If Only One Can Be Wired... Which should it be?

[bmichaels556]

If you could ONLY currently wire one device... Your home server, OR the device you primarily send/receive data to/from the server... Which would you benefit by the most as far as latency, and speed?

 

Both devices on 2.4ghz, I'm getting about 8-12MB/s speeds when sending to my network folder(s) wirelessly. I'd imagine wiring even one of them would improve latency, as well as speed. But which one being wired would help most?

[KarathKasun]

22 minutes ago, bmichaels556 said:

If you could ONLY currently wire one device... Your home server, OR the device you primarily send/receive data to/from the server... Which would you benefit by the most as far as latency, and speed?

 

Both devices on 2.4ghz, I'm getting about 8-12MB/s speeds when sending to my network folder(s) wirelessly. I'd imagine wiring even one of them would improve latency, as well as speed. But which one being wired would help most?

Technically it doesnt really matter which, but the server is what should have the most reliable connection.

[Windows7ge]

Assuming both are using identical wireless NICs the benefit will only be as high as the bottleneck removed by switching one to Ethernet. So, the question kind of doesn't make sense because the performance will be the same either way.

 

Now if you have a particularly good ISP plan and you do a lot of away from home things then a wired server would definitely be better. However it's a general standard to have your servers wired and if clients have to be wireless it's OK. So it depends on your use case. I can really only think of a lot of remote access making a wired server beneficial if only one device can be wired.

[Mr Technician]

But why can you only attach one device to the wired connection? Even if you're out of ports a gigabit switch is cheap on amazon.