BECAUSE TEH INTARWEBZ.
My house is wired for Ethernet. I ran the wires myself. I shall never, and I repeat, NEVER trust wireless. The cable modem has wireless capability but I disabled it.
I use wireless for my printer and Roku boxes. I have 3 PCs and a media server that are connected via Ethernet. I’m on a 150/35 FIOS connection and wouldn’t come close to those speeds with wireless.
I don’t trust wi-fi. I am wired.
Wireless has it’s place.
I bought a house that was already built and running hard wired ethernet is simply not worth the effort of punching holes in the drywall and repairing them in order to place recepticles.
There are devices (computers and printers) that are hard wired, and then things like this laptop, iPads and similar that are wireless.
A place and a purpose for everything.
I prefer wired Ethernet, for one reason: no worries about Wi-Fi interference problems.
Heeheehee....still on dial-up :-)
Similar to the way cellphones have replaced many landlines.
I have a wireless ROKU box, WD TV box, laptop, WD NAS 3TB hard drive, and an XEROX color laser printer that are all wireless.
The NAS drive holds a lot of movies and TV programs I have collected. I can watch them on my LCD TV through the WD TV box or the ROKU box.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Wireless (well actually our in-house Router) gets turned off every night....use it for ROKU, and sometimes laptop when “unhooked”. Have a love/hate relationship with wireless.
save for later
They need more Channels, at least until the 5 GHz band makes more headway.
When everyone in the area is on Channel 6, it causes problems.
BECAUSE TEH INTARWEBZ.
Wireless for convenience. Wired for maximum throughput, reliability, and security. Different solutions for different problems.
Depends on what you want to do and the speed.
My desktop is ethernet and connected to the router. I’m on the work station wireless and it’s just as fast.
Wired is faster and more reliable than Wi-Fi. Plug it in an forget about it. No configuration needed either. No, wired isn’t dead. Just like the PC isn’t dead.
I have both but I love my wired network. It is faster.
I wouldn’t say killed, I’d say simplified. Anything in my home that is within convenient wire of the router (which itself is within convenient wire of the cable jack that matters) goes by wire, anything else wifi. Wired is still smoother with fewer potential issues, but dragging wires all over the place is a pain. It has definitely made wiring your whole house a thing of the past, but there’s a good chance one room will still be mostly wired.
I am running wired everywhere I can, reserving the wireless bandwidth for truly portable devices (laptop, phones, etc.) and those things I can’t conveniently run wires to.