<story><title>Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-for-workplace-zen-landlines-and-ethernet-cords-remote-work-11648220628</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m showing my old age, but I never thought of Wi-Fi networking or mobile voice as anything other than &amp;quot;toy&amp;quot; technologies, unsuitable for SeriousBusiness™. Wi-Fi is what you use very temporarily at a coffee shop or something when you simply &lt;i&gt;have to&lt;/i&gt; log in to deal with an emergency while on the go. But, for serious daily driver usage, it&amp;#x27;s wired all the way. First thing I did when I moved into my home was crawl under the crawlspace and run two CAT 6 drops to each room.&lt;p&gt;If I were to be hired by a company and went into their office the first day, and they said, &amp;quot;so the corporate Wi-Fi SSID is...&amp;quot; well, I&amp;#x27;d kind of not take them really seriously as a business. I realize with today&amp;#x27;s much better Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, that this is an emotional response and there&amp;#x27;s no rational facts behind the way I feel. Just an artifact of growing up with &amp;quot;wired = reliable&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I have a friend who is an experienced senior paralegal. (Experienced paralegals are sought after because the best ones often leave the job quickly to go to law school.) She started work at a new boutique law firm founded by prominent litigators. She was to head up the paralegal department within the firm. She quit days later. Key to her decision, she told me, was the fact that their IT plan apparently involved using &lt;i&gt;the building WiFi&lt;/i&gt; instead of setting up an internal wired network. She figured that this was such a red flag regarding the firm’s administrative competency that she was going to have a rough time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-for-workplace-zen-landlines-and-ethernet-cords-remote-work-11648220628</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m showing my old age, but I never thought of Wi-Fi networking or mobile voice as anything other than &amp;quot;toy&amp;quot; technologies, unsuitable for SeriousBusiness™. Wi-Fi is what you use very temporarily at a coffee shop or something when you simply &lt;i&gt;have to&lt;/i&gt; log in to deal with an emergency while on the go. But, for serious daily driver usage, it&amp;#x27;s wired all the way. First thing I did when I moved into my home was crawl under the crawlspace and run two CAT 6 drops to each room.&lt;p&gt;If I were to be hired by a company and went into their office the first day, and they said, &amp;quot;so the corporate Wi-Fi SSID is...&amp;quot; well, I&amp;#x27;d kind of not take them really seriously as a business. I realize with today&amp;#x27;s much better Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, that this is an emotional response and there&amp;#x27;s no rational facts behind the way I feel. Just an artifact of growing up with &amp;quot;wired = reliable&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>I think you are both right and wrong!&lt;p&gt;You are old enough (I assume) to remember really dodgy wifi but it has moved on and APs from nearly all vendors are really rather good.  ISPs in the UK (I can&amp;#x27;t comment elsewhere obviously) have generally woken up to delivering really quite decent &amp;quot;hubs&amp;quot; instead of a shonky Thompson Rainbow type device.  That said, even those have some mileage with a firmware change.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all about tools for the job.  You know as well as I do what drywall&amp;#x2F;plasterboard does to wifi or what a skin of bricks does to wifi propagation, compared to generally wooden construction.&lt;p&gt;Yes, running a CATn cable will nearly always trump a wifi connection but it&amp;#x27;s fixed.  I personally stick to CAT5e at home instead of 6 but I won&amp;#x27;t rule it out in future.  5e -&amp;gt; 1Gb&amp;#x2F;s over 100m.  6 ... which one? 6 is nominally 10Gb&amp;#x2F;s and 6A is 40 I think.  6A needs the shielding to be earthed properly.&lt;p&gt;I run most things over wifi if I can.  My servers have fixed ethernet and things like my doorbell obviously get a PoE CAT5e connection.  ... ... ... obviously!</text></comment>