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.
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
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.
Ethernet is awesome. Super fast, doesn't matter how many people are using it,
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.
When I had my house reinsulated last year I took the opportunity to run cables from every room to a small closet, and then a run from that closet to the router. Had some... experience, learning how to wire in the sockets, and right now only my office is connected with a bit of patch instead of the switch I'll eventually need to get the other rooms live, but it's so much more reliable than it was with WiFi or poweline. Not to mention that those technologies only just kept up with the 36Mb VDSL I've been stuck on for the last 10 years. Having ethernet means I'll actually be able to get the most out of the 500Mb FttP I'm getting next month.
And here I am, still running wi-fi at home like a pleb.
My city is installing fiber over the next couple years, so I'll finally run the cables when that happens, but it's such a chore. I've put it off so long that running fiber is probably the way to go at this point. New Internet should support 10gbit, so maybe it's worth it.