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[Vozella]

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Edited December 5, 2015 by Vozella

[hug0mac]

Good for you.

 

Maybe not all have the same as you? Speed, mobo, wireless router etc...

[Kobathor]

Your Mileage May Vary..

 

My computer is in the room next to my router, when I use a pretty decent USB 3.0 WIFI card I get about 30 download/10 upload.

 

Ethernet gets me 60 download/60 upload consistently.

 

It's totally a situation thing, whether you're near a WAP or not.

 

Also, I get lots of latency on WiFi. I mean like, adds ~30 ping to my CS:GO endeavors.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Have you ever tried local file transfers over WiFi instead of hardwire? The speed difference is huge. 

[Samfisher]

How come it doesn't matter whether my internet connection is plugged in through an ethernet cable or connected through my motherboards wifi?

My speeds are the same either way.

WiFi interference from neighbours. Concrete walls.

[Godlygamer23]

Wired connections can give greater reliability and using WiFi can cause interference. Additionally, if you're in an area where WiFi is used a lot, your connection can be slow and unreliable due to devices talking over each other on a given channel. Wireless signals can be unreliable due to things like walls and other wireless signals.

[Vozella]

Have you ever tried local file transfers over WiFi instead of hardwire? The speed difference is huge. 

How do I do that?

[AlTech]

How come it doesn't matter whether my internet connection is plugged in through an ethernet cable or connected through my motherboards wifi?

My speeds are the same either way.

Lower Latency with Ethernet. ANd higher bandwidth. 

 

The opposite is true for wireless.

 

For gaming, it's wired or nothing.

[Oshino Shinobu]

How do I do that?

Create a shared folder or drive on a PC, then access it from another PC and transfer a movie or something. (or you can create a shared USB drive on your router, or use a NAS for local network storage). If you have a permanent or somewhat regularly used local network storage solution, WiFi simply isn't good enough for file transfers. 

 

My wireless caps out at 8MB/s, whereas I get 120MB/s with hardwire. 

[XTankSlayerX]

Because not everyone has state of the art Wifi.

Because people want to have the advantage of lower ping when gaming.

There are many pros and cons to both. But there's a lot less stuff that can go wrong with wired connection.

[C_Mike]

Generally over any kind of wireless connection both Latency and Upload are worse than a wired connection.

[Gikero]

WiFi latency can be an issue. Wireless interference can be an issue. Snooping a wired network requires access to the network. Wireless is convenient, but not as stable.  I prefer wired connections, but I currently use my PC wirelesslly because I can't properly wire the house I am living in.

[braneopbru]

How come it doesn't matter whether my internet connection is plugged in through an ethernet cable or connected through my motherboards wifi?

My speeds are the same either way.

 

Because your internet is too slow for the benefits of a wired connection to become evident.

[skywake]

Because your internet is too slow for the benefits of a wired connection to become evident.

I'm surprised you were the only one who said this. Unless you have an awesome connection or very, very crap WiFi your internet is always going to be the bottleneck. It's kinda like asking why people buy high end GPUs when you can't see the difference between a 960 and a 980 on a 720p HDTV.

[Vozella]

Because your internet is too slow for the benefits of a wired connection to become evident.

 

 

I'm surprised you were the only one who said this. Unless you have an awesome connection or very, very crap WiFi your internet is always going to be the bottleneck. It's kinda like asking why people buy high end GPUs when you can't see the difference between a 960 and a 980 on a 720p HDTV.

 

[braneopbru]

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Ok, What's your point ?

[skywake]

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Ok, diagram time. Lets assume N300 (single band, ~70Mbps) with everything connected at full speed just to make this neater. The scenario is you have a 60Mbps internet connection and are using that do download some update to your phone. At the same time someone is streaming a 1080p video (~15Mbps) from a file server to a laptop or something. While this is happening you're using a Steam Link to remotely play Rocket League or something (~20Mbps). Not an outlandish scenario, probably something that happens every day for some people.

 

Firstly with everything connected via WiFi except the file server and internet. All of those dotted lines are sharing that 70Mbps. Some of them will be automatically shaped by your AP. What's likely to happen is everything will slow down to ~15Mbps. Causing serious issues with Steam in-home-streaming.

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Now with wired and I think the advantage here should be pretty obvious. These things could be pushing 500Mbps each and not worry each other:

[hug0mac]

Ok, What's your point ?

 

 

That is megabit per second?

[braneopbru]

That is megabit per second?

Yes, megabit.