"Dave Plowman" wrote in message
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In article ,
David W.E. Roberts wrote:
Always be better?
Even if your requirements are to connect from across a busy street?

Err, how many people have houses that span a street?

Or to connect from the bottom of the garden?

Are you just inventing reasons?

Wireless is perfectly acceptable for most domestic users this year -
there will be a minority with more complex needs but "always better"?

I've not yet come across a wireless link that is as good as a cable. It
might well be for some of the time, though.

Sir, methinks you are a Troll!

Not. I really can't see the point in complicating matters.

I am not inventing reasons :-)

(1) I have my (IT illiterate) next door neighbour on my WLAN so I can
maintain his system for him and download Windows and virus updates without
spending hours tying up his phone line.
(2) I am considering adding the folks across the road for similar reasons.
(3) I like to be able to take the portable into the garden now and then to
work.
(4) At the moment I have no power (or anything else, really) in the new
office/bedroom and I am temporarily running my LAN from the loft, where I
have my ADSL line, ADSL modem/router. and WiFi AP all sitting up there
powered by an extension lead. I have three PCs running in house of the WLAN
and switching from wired to wireless took minutes.
(5) I have no desire to wire the whole house (with consequent mess and
disruption) to provide access for occasional PCs (such as returning
offspring). For Internet surfing and email, wireless fits the bill
admirably.

So there are 5 seperate instances where wirelss is superior to wired because
I don't need high bandwidth and I don't have to run wires.

For any heavy/complex/high bandwidth activities wired is the way to go.
However it is extremely blinkered, even illogical, to state that something
is "always better"; this implies that there is no situation whatsoever where
a wireless link is better than a wired link.
So patently illogical that it had all the hallmarks of a Troll :-)

Cheers
Dave R

P.S. (6) I also like to surf with my PDA when in bed or in other locations
without a wired link :-) Perhaps I should start an "I love WiFi" thread ?