Wireless Or Wired?

petebbdl · Post by **petebbdl** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:05 pm

Which is better for broadband?

derboxen · Post by **derboxen** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:36 am

the obvious answer is wired.. less connectivity problems.. and you will have a faster link (yes i know that 802.11-n is out at 200mbs). The real truth is that both will be faster than your ISP has to offer. the slowest wireless operates @ 11mbs. at most your isp offers 10mb, in which your wireless is still faster than the actual line.. so you will be able to max your Internet connection. Use wired if you want cheap and reliable. Use wireless if its more convient.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:42 am

petebbdl wrote:Which is better for broadband?

That depends on what works best for you, and what your needs are. Do you use a laptop? Do you enjoy working from your couch in the living room, or from your bed upstairs, or from a lawnchair in your backyard, or.....
...then wireless may be better for you.

Do you do a lot of heavy online gaming? If so..you probably have a large PC instead of a laptop...and in this case...I'd go with wired. Wireless..even if setup optimally, will still add a weee bit of latency.

I run both at my house, and at the office.

For performance...some people different experiences with wireless...it's been quite solid for my setup, my router is downstairs, I can go upstairs and still download at over a solid 8 megs.

Arizonan · Post by **Arizonan** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:25 am

New to the forum and I have a question I think applies here. How do you run two computers simultaneously through one modem where one computer is wired and the second is wireless? I thought routers were either wired or wireless.

TripleTaco · Post by **TripleTaco** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:40 pm

My wireless connection is faster than my wired.

wireless runs about 4.1Mbps and wired runs about 3.5Mbps. I'm paying for 6Mbps. I think something is wrong with my setup though. I was just going to post it somewhere and see if I could get some help.....couldn't help posting on this thread

Paul

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:44 pm

Arizonan wrote:How do you run two computers simultaneously through one modem where one computer is wired and the second is wireless? I thought routers were either wired or wireless.

Wireless routers do both..most will have a built in 4 port switch in the back for wired PCs..and you can uplink switches or hubs to that...to have 253 computers on your network (wired..and wireless..total of IP addresses).

Wireless and wired can share the internet..as well as network sharing.