What are the benefits of using an Ethernet cable on a WiFi router? Wi--Fi, half-duplex, Ethernet full-duplex.
This means you can not send and receive simultaneously over a wireless connection.
It's even worse - only one person on your radio and AP's radio (and on the same channel) can send at the same time. Through Ethernet, each device can send and receive without interfering with each other unless you satisfy your Internet connection.
Every active Wi-Fi device has a small negative effect on everything else. The more hardline, you have on.
Your home devices, the better experience you will have on the rest of the wireless devices. With more active WiFi devices it becomes even more recognizable.
WI Wi-Fi is subject to random interference from Wi-Fi devices, cordless phones, microwave ovens and more. You will never experience any noticeable adverse effects from interfering with your home Ethernet network.
Practically, no one can spy on your hardline ethernet unless they are in your home.
There are plenty of defective AP / Wi-Fi routers, ISP-provided routers are very bad in my country, which make it easier or even worse for any young person with the technology to spy.
Ethernet network connected to Wi-Fi devices via your AP has built-in buffering and delay. This adds some delay.
Wi-Fi experiences several packets more packet loss than Ethernet networks, which typically range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of hours on WiFi at 0-1 / hour vs home speed.
Most of us know that guy' in online games, they drop in every hour while playing on wifi.
If you are near your home router, or are able to run wires inside your home, you should always use Ethernet whenever possible.
If you use an advanced CAT6 cable with a modern home router, you can get a maximum speed of 1000Mbps (1Gbps).
Advanced wireless access point / home router, which can get up to 450Mbps if you are close to it. And there is a small obstacle in this.
If there are more devices on the wireless network, less bandwidth will be available for devices that share the same 450 Mbps you can get 300 Mbps from mid-range and 54 from more common low-end and long-range commercial access points, mbps connections.
Wi-Fi is very vulnerable and even in ideal conditions, there are dozens to thousands of transmissions per hour and receive errors and this rate can increase exponentially as you add more devices and other accesses occur.
Points are added nearby. Wi-Fi can be interrupted by microwave ovens, cordless phones, and other devices operating in the 2.4Ghz (or 5Ghz) range. UTP, or STP if you are using a high quality cable.
Ethernet cable is designed to prevent this type of interference. Through Ethernet, each device gets a separate 100Mbps connection, or 1Gbps if you use a more advanced home router and cable.
If so, the rate will never go down like Wifi. From the access point.
From a security standpoint, using Ethernet, no one can spy on your traffic without having direct access to the wires in your home.
Ethernet consumes less power for those who have a laptop or want to save energy.
Wireless also has to deal with the problem of separating the traffic created for others from the traffic created for itself.
If you are directly connected to your home router, you are on a switched, full duplex channel, which means that on that wire, you can talk to your router while your router is talking to your computer.
That is, both sending and receiving at the same time. And there is no barrier.
Wireless traffic should be sorted and buffered and wait for the turn to speak/receive in timelines negotiated with the access point.
Before sending anything, the wireless device selects a random time and then asks.
Can I talk now? Should ask the AP. There is a minimum waiting time adding to the inherent delay.
This will only get worse as more devices try to send it to the AP. In contrast, most home network Ethernet connections have the enormous advantage of having a complete duplex dedicated connection.
Complete duplex means that the devices at each end of the connection can send and receive simultaneously as half-duplex W-iFi.
Thanks to this, you will rarely have to wait for your Ethernet adapter to transmit. In contrast, the waiting time on congested networks can be quite noticeable.
There is a high possibility of wireless failure, which should be checked regularly with the devices and specify the time slots for them to talk to.
Once the Ethernet connection is established, there will be no special discussions or waiting periods.
Due to the buffering and time lots at both ends, it takes a few extra milliseconds for wireless traffic to travel compared to Ethernet.
For those who play online games or are concerned with low response times, Ethernet should always provide shorter response times in addition to being more stable and dropping frames.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with networking and wondering why I call this a home router, I would like to share that there are actually a lot of things that most people think of as a router.
The home router usually consists of a router, a 4-port switch, which includes all four of your Ethernet ports, and a wireless access point, all one on one.
In a way, it's not just a router, it's a bit more, but it's not the same as the big enterprise routers used by big businesses and ISPs, so it's a completely different animal.
Sorry for wandering around, but I hope this is helpful for those who want to know more about their home networks and why they still do not want to give up Ethernet.
Final conclusion - If you use the latest IEEE 802.11ac standard, Wi-Fi would be great if there are no more neighbors and a smaller house or multiple APs. Wi-Fi is often not great for anything that is sensitive to latency and stability, and may not be liked by many devices making heavy downloads / uploads. The 802.11ac is miles better in these respects than its predecessor.
You must be logged in to post a comment.