On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Why do you need such speed on a phone?
I don't. However, the phone won't be the last 802.11ac device here; the next laptop will support it as well, whenever that's purchased, and it might not always be within range of Ethernet cables.
Thus the thought was: consider an 802.11ac access point and avoid the upgrade later on.
I suppose the backups and dist-upgrades can afford to be on Ethernet, but I tend to be of the "buy hardware that meets the latest standards and hold onto it until there's a real need to upgrade" school.
I'm in favor of getting something cheap that does the job and not upgrading it until necessary. I'm using 100baseT networking which is fast enough for my use. It's a lot faster than my ADSL2+ link and faster than the NBN will be. It's a bottleneck for backups but they can just run for as long as it takes. My home wifi does "up to 54Mb/s" (802.11a/g I guess) and my phone reports it as having a connection speed of 18Mb/s. The lowest FTP transfer rate to my phone on that link is about 560KB/s (5Mb/s). That's enough to transfer a 40 minute TV episode in 10 minutes, it's good enough. 560KB/s also compares well to the maximum transfer rate I get from the Internode mirror which usually gives a maximum speed of about 800KB/s. So I don't think Wifi would limit me in dist-upgrade type operations. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/