wifi6 or Ethernet

WARburton · Thursday at 16:31

My EE rougher is wifi6 compatible, but i moved my Pc today and the rougher is now less than a meter away whats the best option?
my internet is full fiber is 150meg if it matter

Ethernet is Realtek 2.5Gb Ethernet
wifi is 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax)

nlel1975 · Thursday at 16:47

Ethernet

ChrisD. · Thursday at 16:48

Wired.

Armageus · Thursday at 16:51

If it's less than a meter away, then wired is a no brainer

Paul11 · Thursday at 16:52

always wired where possible

WARburton · Thursday at 16:53

just didnt know how wifi6 matched upto 2.5Gb wired

i will order a cable

Thekwango · Thursday at 16:56

WARburton said:
just didnt know how wifi6 matched upto 2.5Gb wired

i will order a cable

your 'rougher' will thank you for using a cable.

Armageus · Thursday at 16:56

WARburton said:
just didnt know how wifi6 matched upto 2.5Gb wired

i will order a cable

Wifi6 doesn't even match up with Gigabit ethernet let alone 2.5Gb

nlel1975 · Thursday at 16:58

WARburton said:
i will order a cable

Order a Cat6 cable, a flat cable will be cheaper and you won’t need a round one for that distance.

WARburton · Thursday at 17:00

thank guys, cable ordered

WARburton · Thursday at 17:01

Armageus said:
Wifi6 doesn't even match up with Gigabit ethernet let alone 2.5Gb

i genially fell into the wifi speed claims, i sure i read the wifi 6 was on par with 10Gb. obviously i didn't :rolleyes:

EDIT: no this is wrong... but i did hear it was silly fast

Orcvader · Thursday at 17:20

With my own testing on 5GHz WiFi 6 can reach around ~900mb... but that assumes I'm close to the router/access point... which at that point I might as well be wired.

But it's not just speed, there's also latency, WiFi will always have a bit more while ethernet is pretty much near 0ms (to the router).

nlel1975 · Thursday at 17:26

I decided to order a shortish Ethernet cable to connect my Mac Mini to my router. I believe my Mac Mini is capable of the latest WiFi speeds but my router isn’t.

My router is supplied by my ISP and I can’t change it, I’ve got a gigabit internet connection so do benefit from the extra speed with wired.

I haven’t got a GF/ Wife to moan about a 5M cable run across the bedroom floor and ordered a yellow cable as it was the cheapest.

WARburton · Thursday at 17:44

nlel1975 said:
I haven’t got a GF/ Wife to moan about a 5M cable run across the bedroom floor and ordered a yellow cable as it was the cheapest.

like this haha, this is why my pc went upstairs. id mentioned moving it back downstairs a few times but got no reply.
played squads till 3am 4 days in a row... today we went desk shopping

tbf the cables on here are very cheap

WARburton · Thursday at 17:46

Orcvader said:
But it's not just speed, there's also latency, WiFi will always have a bit more while ethernet is pretty much near 0ms (to the router).

this is very good point i didnt think of the latency over wifi

robj20 · Thursday at 19:51

Not to mention the more devices you have using the WiFi the slower overall it will be.
Save WiFi for your mobile devices or stuff that can't be wired.

Ad_Augendae · Thursday at 19:52

Ethernet Cable every time, if you understand why, the following will make sense
Below shows several tests from 2 devices using WiFi6 in seperate locations in the same room and 1 device using a cable, bottom test.

WiFi 6 PC1
status: udp download
time-remaining: 18s
ping-min-avg-max: 1.79ms / 2.49ms / 10.7ms
jitter-min-avg-max: 1us / 501us / 8.38ms
loss: 0% (0/200)
tcp-download: 810Mbps local-cpu-load:80%
tcp-upload: 819Mbps local-cpu-load:45% remote-cpu-load:0%

WiFi6 PC2
status: udp download
time-remaining: 16s
ping-min-avg-max: 1.63ms / 1.96ms / 9.12ms
jitter-min-avg-max: 1us / 240us / 7.28ms
loss: 0% (0/200)
tcp-download: 694Mbps local-cpu-load:70%
tcp-upload: 635Mbps local-cpu-load:38% remote-cpu-load:2%

Network Cable
status: udp download
time-remaining: 22s
ping-min-avg-max: 359us / 419us / 979us
jitter-min-avg-max: 0s / 43us / 578us
loss: 0% (0/200)
tcp-download: 939Mbps local-cpu-load:50%
tcp-upload: 933Mbps local-cpu-load:60% remote-cpu-load:2%

gary996 · Thursday at 20:57

If only I had put some wired points into my house b4 I carpeted everywhere

Hyburnate · Thursday at 21:37

Wi-Fi is half duplex, only one station (AP or Client) can talk on the same frequency up to the threshold of the clear channel assessment at a time.

As that channel gets more congested, your device has to compete for air time amongst other devices.

Simply said, if it doesn't move, wire it, if it moves, wireless.

Happy to send you some relevant blog posts.

Cob · Thursday at 21:37

I’d look in your EE routers box for a cable before ordering one.