On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:28:59AM +0000, Mick wrote > The world is moving towards high speed wireless connectivity anyway, > so more and more devices will not need a physical switch port or > ethernet cables to gain access to the network.
"High speed wireless" is going to be a big disappointment. Due to laws of physics, you need high frequencies for faster wireless speeds. But higher frequencies have a lot less penetrating power. They might scream in a short range lab test, but in the real world, lower frequencies actually perform better. See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/millimeter-wave-5g-will-never-scale-beyond-dense-urban-areas-t-mobile-says/ for a demo. This is about cellphone frequencies, but the same laws of physics apply. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
