On 3 December 2013 09:48, Derek Smithies <[email protected]> wrote: > There are some "zealots" who have found faster ways of > doing things with radios..
Really, IMO, N-Spec is the only thing getting close to comparable benefits of a wire. N-Spec can get >100Mb which is impressive, but still not as good as GBe NSpec is far more directional with regard to devices, so contention is less a problem. But the hardware itself still tends to be flakey as hell ( e.g. my nspec wifi atheros chip seems to make my machine randomly lock up and not even respond to magic-sysrqs after running for about a week, and a rebooting router means you have fun wifi renegotiation stuff to occur, which takes a substantial amount of time, 30 seconds vs plugging a cable in is pretty poor ) Though I don't see how even the best wireless tech will ever be better than the best wired tech. Even if you restrict yourself to radio-signals, wires are essentially a low-interference signal channel at the end of the day. You don't get better point-to-point than "can route around arbitrary objects in the exact way needed to get from a to b". Sure, maybe wires can't go *through* things, but neither can light, and if we end up going optical one day, can you really do better with a light beam passing through open air than you can a highly specialised optical cable ? I suspect not. Now if we had neutrino based comunication that passed through solid objects at the speed of light without being subject to the whole "Light isnt' too fond of walls" thing, now you're talking. =) -- Kent _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
