Yes, I have Ethernet between Starlink and my switch. However, how would I run an Ethernet cable to every device like phones, tables, laptops without an Ethernet port, streaming box, etc. WiFi is an absolute necessity these days. Plus, most people don't even think about wired Ethernet, as WiFi is ubiquitous.
Ethernet adapter for the laptop, and you should only buy streaming boxes that have ethernet ports. Those two are probably using most of your WIFI bandwith anyway, so hard wire both of those and the phone and tablet should work pretty good after that.
I've never hardwired any of my TV streamers. Prior to this current version of the AP software, they have streamed 4Kp60 no problem, in fact, I have done it on all three TVs at once just as a test. Worked fine. I'm going to roll back the version of the AP software I am on, because it's awful.
It is not how many SSIDs they have but how much traffic (streaming) they are using in total. You can have 1 SSID and 4 kids streaming 4K at the same time and be worse than 6 SSIDs they just use to keep things secure.
Yes, I am the same, but I think its more than 6. They even have 2 called "hidden network" that aren't hidden, I can hardly receive my own wifi in my office. But there good neighbors, so I don't want to say anything. I presume they simply don't know better. I ran a cat5 to my office for now.
Back when WiFi had little bandwidth and the radios and drivers were mostly terrible, I ran Ethernet to pretty much everything. The need to do that is over. WiFi has gotten light years better and faster, it's now ubiquitous. I only run Ethernet to the APs and a couple Linux servers that sit close to the switch. I don't even run Ethernet to my main PC, which moves over 80GB/day. My wife and I both work from home and will spend hours each day where we are both on video calls. The quality is not discernible from wired Ethernet. If you have good APs and configure them correctly for your WiFi environment, you'll have a great experience.
We are doing a remodel of most of the first floor in our house. Most of it is down to the studs and I haven't run an inch of Ethernet cable. No need.
I don't see any reason, as my house has four APs set up correctly. I can get > 500Mb/s download anywhere in my house.
Starlink uses CGNAT. You can't get public IPs on any of the consumer plans I've seen.
As do mine and they are full of dust, as I've never plugged anything into them.
SSIDs (ESS) frames are only 32 bytes, so announcing them takes very little bandwidth.
My PhD EE buddy said that as you increase the QAM constellation, it takes exponentially more processing power. The modulation is all done in hardware, as it's so compute intensive. Modulating with more bits gets harder and harder. It will be interesting to see how this works out in the future.
Agree 100% on all points.
Yes. It is only part of it as we have better and better processing engine for it. The signal to noise ratio keeps getting worse if we keep pushing it for more data vs accuracy. 2^9=512 can store 9 bit, 2^10=1024, 2^11=2048, 2^12=4096, the much reduced signal strength would now require 8 times the precision to get 12/9 = 4/3 = 33% more data. Most of the improvement is in the error correction code engine and increase number of antennas in MIMO. There is a finite number we can use before the noise gets you. 4 antenna for home use and probably 4096 is the max. Most of the improvement recently is in the new channel using wider and wider band hoping not to get collision with other users. The only low hanging fruit is now mitigating collision and, higher frequencies that won't travel far hence less interference from neighbors.
My personal experience suggests that the wired connections are working better, especially the wired ethernet to the Roku box.
WiFi will never be a "good" as wired, but when properly configured WiFi is so close to Ethernet that you can't tell the difference, what's the gain to spending $ on running Ethernet to devices? I'm a networking snob, because it's what I do for a living and I see no benefit of running Ethernet to most devices.
There's nothing wrong with it - other than the cost, if it's not already there.
