Your local network: Wifi or RJ45?

[Christophe]

Small survey to see what you use as a type of network at home: by Wifi or RJ45 network ? Or other?

Edit if you are looking for hardware to replace the wifi: RJ45 Network Shop

[delnoram]

I stopped the wifi, I quickly lost the connection because of the walls 50 cm.

[gegyx]

I will be a little long, but I give my plilosophie.

I'm not too much for the mobile phone, for its harmfulness not yet officially established in France.
I'm not saying it's not helpful. In hardship and troubleshooting.
Myself at work, I'm forced to collect a laptop while I do not want it.
But now with packages and preferential numbers kids spend their time and fall asleep at night with the phone to the ear to say banalities. Enough is enough.
At home, there is also the microwave handy, but with waves as harmful.

So a WiFi, plus in a house! .... Why, when it is not necessary?

When you have a desk, computer fixes, even in each room, what does it cost, to spend a RJ45 wire that can do 100m?
Once installed in each room, it is definitive, and no need for additional harmful waves in the house 24H on 24H

The WiFi interest is for laptops, to hit on his bed, an armchair, WC ...
Also among students of which only one takes the subscription, and in fact benefit all the neighbors of landing.
But is this pleasure the possible inconvenience of a sensory dysfunction or a future disease?
Because at the same time, the WiFi feeds fixed pc which would be satisfied simply with a wired connection to 100KB.

I am also against wifi or bluetooth mice. While a single wire replaces waves and a battery ...

For those who do not want to drill holes, the home network transmission systems may be valid, since the 50Hz network, although harmful is still present; but the interfaces are more expensive.

We must think before acting. We are invaded and attacked by waves of which we do not have the utility most of the time.
Useless in the current context, to add non-stop in our environment, while they also act when we try to sleep and rebuild at night.
Think of children who are even more assaulted when they grow up.

When testing my link (3Mb), I realized that I would never be above the 8mb.
So I took an adsl to 15 € (without modem rental con).
I bought on EBay an Olitec 500 modem router (30 €), with 4 ethernet and a usb.
And it works without the waves.

Now I was thinking of getting rid of FT, to have the Tel understood. But all Fai offer a WiFi router modem, and 2 wired outputs maxi. In addition the tel is limited to a handset, or 2 or 3 if you take a base that transmits, non stop, in all the house still GSM waves ...
Having a need for 4 combined, I wait for it to be proposed in the trade, a wire base, or, I will have to tinker a little ...

I saw that at Free, the Freebox V5, has 4 Ethernet outputs. It becomes interesting. Because WiFi on this machine can be disabled. A single catch again, so wait for the aforementioned problem.

In a family where there was a V4 Wifi, the waves went badly thick walls.
And in the aquarium, at 80cm of the box, all the fish are dead, in some time ...
Me, in addition to the preventive alarms of honest specialists, such a demonstration is enough for me.
The precautionary principle, learn to apply it for yourself and your loved ones.

[Christophe]

Gegyx I better That was exactly what I think and I wanted to hear

I will add another counter arguement to the wifi: its security (even if its defenders will tell you that it is reliable ca the rest less than a good old cable shielded if possible).

The height would be people who cry because of the so-called waves of fluorescent bulbs and have a wifi network at home


For the aquarium if it's true it's serious ...

For 2 wired outputs maxi: nothing prevents you to put a switch on one of the 2 to expand the number of ports ...

[gegyx]

we can always put additional routers (switch).

But if the switch has a network 3 outputs, the sum of the rates of these 3 outputs will not exceed that of 100Kb the first ethernet outlet upstream.

[Christophe]

Huh ?? I think you're talking about old HUBs that shared bandwidth. A Switch does not share it ...

I think we can not find a hub anymore ...

Then a switch is not a router! Two routers on the same network are conflicts in sight (at dhcp level) ... so disable one ... and use it as a ... switch ...

And it is 10 or 100 Mbit not 100 kb against effectively will have to share the bandwidth internet (it would be too easy) but given the current flow I think it's not annoying ...

[gegyx]

Yes it is 100 Mbps.
Actually I thought hub, and I thought the switches worked idem.
But it does not matter, 4 ethernets at the end of the modem-router and it's good for me.

[Christophe]

Well no why else call them SWITCH

In fact a Switch is an improved Hub ... but I'm not a specialist either ...

[crispus]

Grrrr ... I gave in to the ease there 2 years by putting my 2 PC Wifi network via an alicebox. Now I use a laptop with integrated wifi. It would be nice to move around the house or traveling, if the battery held the charge ... but I bought it secondhand and it was already HS.

I pushed the vice to buy a Wifi printer ... which disappointed me. The goal was to be able to share it between PCs without having to keep a PC powered up permanently. In the end it remained next to the laptop, and yesterday I even had to connect to USB because I could not print the network life! In hindsight I should have chosen a network printer RJ45. The bottom line is that they are more expensive at HP! - at least the ones I saw ...

The anecdote of the aquarium has something to thrill. Actually I think technology has gone too far. I think about going back to the wire. There must be RJ45 adapters to add to the USB printers.

[Arthur_64]

Mixed: 2 PCs (a laptop & a fixed one) in WiFi and an RJ 45 network printer (connected in RJ45 to the fixed PC with a network bridge to be accessible from both PCs without using sharing, we have fun as we can).

All this to avoid cluttering with son. Good reliability here and few fears of being hacked (WPA2PSK).

FYI, the hubs are always, but more expensive than the switches oddly ...