What Are The Benefits Of Using An Ethernet Cable?

We often can use a cable which can be plugged in a Dell PowerEdge R440 for example instead of connecting via wifi. It’s true that wifi is one less wire we have to connect, but is it worth it.

Wifi is half-duplex, Ethernet is full-duplex. This means that on a wireless connection, you cannot send and receive simultaneously. It’s worse than that; only one person within range of your radio and the AP’s radio (and on the same channel) can send at the same time. Each device can send and receive on Ethernet without interfering with each other (until it saturates your internet connection, of course).

Each active wifi device has a small negative impact on all others. The more home devices you have connected, the worse experience you will have on the remaining wireless devices. This becomes more noticeable with several very active wifi devices.

Wifi is subject to random interference from wifi devices, cordless phones, microwave ovens, and more. We’ve already talked here about some objects that have to be far away. You will probably never have any noticeable negative impacts of interference on your home Ethernet network.

No one can snoop around your hardline Ethernet in practical terms unless they are at home or in your business. Many faulty wifi APs/routers make it easy for any tech-savvy teenager to spy or hack. There is inherent buffering, and connection delay between the Ethernet network your AP connects to and wifi devices. This will cause some delay.

Wifi experiences many orders of magnitude and packet loss than an Ethernet network (which at-home speeds typically experience 0-1 / h versus a few hundred to tens of thousands per hour over wifi. As you might suspect, most losses packet occurs on devices with a bad connection at the edge of the AP/client range).

The More Devices On A Wireless Network, The Less Bandwidth Available To The Devices.

Thanks to this, your Ethernet adapter rarely needs to wait a significant amount of time to transmit. In contrast, the waiting period in the congested network can become quite noticeable. The wireless network is very prone to failure; you need to check your devices and assign them times to talk regularly. Once an Ethernet connection is established, there are no more special negotiations or waiting periods.