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b_sharp11/16/2010 8:08:30 pm PST

re: #612 BryanS

Give me wired over wifi any day—for security and speed. Gigabit and not easily snooped versus a few 10s of megabits (if using 802.11n) and constant cracking of wireless security standards (wep is a joke, wpa has also been cracked, wpa2 for now seems kinda sorta ok).

‘N’ is supposed to give ~300 Mb speed. I’ve never seen it close. The 2.4GHz band, which is the same as cell phones, only has 3 non-overlapping channels. Try putting 5 g/n routers and a dozen cell phones in the same 2000sq ft building.

I gave up and wired it.