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Yes. Wifi tends to drop packets often (bad for online gaming) and is in general less reliable (sudden low performance).

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Is there a noticeable difference in performance between WiFi and Ethernet for the average user?

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It depends on how good your wifi connection is. As long as you have a reasonably strong signal most people won't notice a difference.

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Yes. Wifi tends to drop packets often (bad for online gaming) and is in general less reliable (sudden low performance).

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3 hours ago, COUPER MILLAR said:

It depends on how good your wifi connection is. As long as you have a reasonably strong signal most people won't notice a difference.

Well that but also what you're doing on the network. If you're copying a multi GB file to a NAS then you'll notice a difference even if you have the best Wi-Fi signal and gear. But if you're just browsing the internet? Your Wi-Fi probably won't be the bottleneck and even if it was you'd likely not notice

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ethernet has advantages

faster connection

more stable

more secure

wifi is only convenience.

 

 

my area everybody and there dog wants to use wifi, hardwired is so yesterday. Downloading 4 games on 4 xboxes, while using there phones, laptops on the same wifi network and somehow it is the crappy isp internet. 

 

 

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