Someone on my town Facebook page complaining about not having any options for internet (Comcast only in our town) and someone chimes in not to worry because wired internet is dead and everyone should just 4G through T-Mobile SMH

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    1 year ago

    What they don’t understand is that 90% of wireless communication goes over wired connectivity at some point. This guy clearly doesn’t understand the internet.

    Plus my fiber can get 1000/1000 with less than 10ms of latency. Good luck with your 5G buddy.

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    1 year ago

    Holy fuck, I don’t think I’ve ever lost this many brain cells as a jr. network engineer.

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    1 year ago

    Cool, some shithead talking about technology like they have a clue. I’m sure someday wireless tech will eclipse wired, but we aren’t near that yet. When the telcos are completely commoditized and not prioritizing traffic, or throttling after a dozen or so gigs, MAYBE there will be a shift.

    I don’t have a data cap and I have a 1gbps line to my house in the US. I pay about 100 bucks a month.

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    1 year ago

    I just rewired a 40 year old house with Cat6 so the APs on both ends are optimal and media center wired in. Very relevant even with wireless. Repeaters are not efficient.

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    1 year ago

    I just wanna say every employees home network setup that comes across my desk for approving their WFH that states they have 5G home internets instantly gets flagged as a concern.

    We use an onsite EMR and the firewall is fine but the EMR if a single packet is lost craps the bed. I don’t trust that aspect of the home internet yet. I’m willing to set them up on our employee remote server but 5G home networking is just abysmal in so many ways.

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    1 year ago

    They milked the old copper for decades but they are going to abandon the brand new fiber? They are still installing coaxial and twisted pair. In 100 years we will still be patching into old Comcast coxial build outs.

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    1 year ago

    I mean there’s a new fiber company that just started rolling out in my town.

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      1 year ago

      Why would you care about it? It’s the same reason I blocked out the name of the poster, for a bit of privacy. It’s all small town and it’s none of your business where it is

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    1 year ago

    How the hell des he think the towers that provide 1 to 5g receive the bandwidth? In the imortal words of that smart mouthed scholor, Bugs Bunny, “what a maroon”.

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    1 year ago

    Wait until they find out that all their 5G signals are powered by a fiber/coaxial backend, depending on where they live 😂

    And satellite is worse than cable or fiber, it only exists for remote places that don’t have that option.

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    1 year ago

    Huh? Someone better tell Wal-Mart’s East Coast credit card processing facility in Glen Allen, VA to switch to wifi for their storage area network.