#1 2023-05-10 15:28:54

THX1138

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LOL wireless or ethernet?

Sorry if this post is in the wrong place or if it reads like a blog but I do have a question.

Just wondering if I'm clinging to the past too much. what you do think of wireless and bluetooth?

I'm quite touchy about security and its like an obsession with me. I sometimes wish I was just normal hahahahahaha. I think about this all the time whenever I setup a network for myself or someone else.I feel that from a security point of view ethernet is safest and more reliable, but wifi is more practical and cheaper. That is how I view the situation.
Even though my pass keys are like 15 random characters long I still dont trust wireless. I mess with the routers and firewalls ALL the time.

Also I never trust bluetooth. I hate bluetooth its a nightmare. I sometimes wish wireless
communications had never been invented. Like last week, I trusted bluetooth for the first time EVER ! and what happened? A few minutes later some neighbours device was requesting that I give them access to my, so called, smart television, so I disabled it.

I dunno, some people are neurotic about various other things. Me I worry about computer security all the time, even though there is no way I would call myself an expert.

I have worked with small to medium sized businesses setting up their networks, running cables, setting up all their requirements, and I feel like a failure whenever I hear, "cant we just cut down on expense and time and use wireless"? I do the compromise but I lose sleep over it.

maybe I'm just old fashioned and a bit neurotic about security - how about you?

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PackRat

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Re: LOL wireless or ethernet?

I have some of the same privacy/security issues as you. Similar experience with Bluetooth when the neighbor's hardware started showing up.

I use ethernet whenever possible. Worked out pretty well when the wife had to start working from home due to covid. Her company requires an ethernet connection for security. So it was a painless transition.

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Re: LOL wireless or ethernet?

Security aside, you are always going to have a more stable connection with ethernet.

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THX1138

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Re: LOL wireless or ethernet?

Security aside, you are always going to have a more stable connection with ethernet.

My wife works from home and the computers and phones her company gave her are wifi only. I have them isolated from everything else on the network. In fact I wont let her work phones connect to our network at all. Problem is her tech guys wont give us any admin rights to do stuff so her work computers have to be remoted by them, and i dont really want to lose her a job by trying anything fancy to alter stuff on their computer hardware hahahaha

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DeepDayze

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Re: LOL wireless or ethernet?

Ethernet dongles you can get for those machines, if your wife's company allows that hardware to be used. I asked my employer for one as I have a similar laptop without an ethernet port. Alternatively can get a docking station that provides those ports.

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jeffreyC

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Re: LOL wireless or ethernet?

Ethernet dongles you can get for those machines, if your wife's company allows that hardware to be used. I asked my employer for one as I have a similar laptop without an ethernet port. Alternatively can get a docking station that provides those ports.

Since the demise of physical docking connectors on the bottom of laptops docking stations are basically big dongles themselves.

DeepDayze

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Re: LOL wireless or ethernet?

Ethernet dongles you can get for those machines, if your wife's company allows that hardware to be used. I asked my employer for one as I have a similar laptop without an ethernet port. Alternatively can get a docking station that provides those ports.

Since the demise of physical docking connectors on the bottom of laptops docking stations are basically big dongles themselves.

True, and most use a USB-C port like my work laptop does and I hooked up a docking station that was provided to me to it.

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