As Dean says,
The wifi eliminates the wires all around the house. I had wired my kids bedroom for their desktops and now they've got laptops. They discovered that the wired connections are faster than the wireless 'N' router I have, so now they plug in whenever they can.
Paul Hachmeyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dean Kukral
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Dual Internet connections
If you have laptops, desktops, printers, TIVO's, internet multimedia, and whatever spread through the house, and you are unable or unwilling to thread cables everywhere, then that is a reason to have a WIFI connection. There is no law that says a desktop will in all cases be conveniently located, so the WIFI capability built into the desktop may save you a slot. It is probably pretty cheap to build it onto the motherboard and tout it as a "feature," even if it is generally not to useful.
BTW, my internet connection is max 1.5mbs. I doubt that very many home connections are capable of 54 much less 100, but I have no facts to back that up.
Dean
On 3/7/2011 12:52 PM, Dave@MonroeCommunity wrote:
> *I just got all of this since my origianl post. I shut off the WIFI
> connection because* *it is 54 Mbps at best and the Ethernet connection
> is 100 mbps. Still cant see a reason to put a WIFI card in a desktop*
> *unless the machine can use both at the same time.*
> *
> *
> *Dave
>
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>> *I have a new to me, HP Pavillion Desktop. It is a Quad Core with
>>> Win 7 Home
>>> 64 bit.
>>> In addition to the ethernet connection it also has a Wifi internal card.
>>> I
>>> dont know why that would be on a desktop unles it can use both
>>> connections at the same time. Can it ?
>>> --
>>>
>
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