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Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years - IEEE Spectrum
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Ethernet is awesome. Super fast, doesn't matter how many people are using it, it functions as a hardware dead-switch and you can decorate your house with lovely blue cables everywhere.
Not to forget: The cables are so sturdy you can strangle attackers with them. Comes in handy sometimes.
Oh, shit. We're dealing with a sysadmin.
https://xkcd.com/705/
Sythadmin
Very true, and if you arrange them carefully they can even trip unsuspecting invaders. Built in home defence.
Haha, when I first moved into the house I'm living in now, my wife was never done tripping over my cable. I'd yet to mount it to the wall at that point....
They are also strong enough to pull down stray branches stuck in a tree.
Let's hope it never has to come to that....
I personally like ethernet because it's so reliable & I've never had any problems. In my house WiFi can be so unreliable, whereas ethernet has been nothing but awesome....
Yeah for sure. I have both in my house and you just can't beat ethernet. Wifi is great for taking the laptop to the couch though or for phones and such too
Yea WiFi is definitely great for certain things, but not everything. My wife has friends over at the house from time to time, and some of them ask why I'd rather run a cable from the router to my computer instead of just using WiFi. It's easy enough to explain, but because they are not all that technical, it's hard for them to understand, I guess....
For me it’s more that I have enough devices that if they were all on WiFi they would be eating all the airtime and the devices that need WiFi would have worse bandwidth.
Same, with my house being a faraday cage from the aluminum siding and insulation WiFi is not happy in my home. I just switched from WiFi doorbells to PoE because they would disconnect every few minutes.
POE is an amazing invention
You wanted to say "Switched Ethernet is awesome". The big problem of Etherpad before that was the large collision domain, which made things miserable with high load. What Ethernet had going for it before that was the low price - which is why you've seen 10base2 setups commonly in homes, while companies often preferred something like Token Ring.
Seriously? This is 2023, we don't have to pay homage to, or clarify our language regarding implementations and topologies that only a tiny fraction of current users are even aware they exist, and most of those have only read about them in a book, or manual.
Sir, this is a technology community!