Quote Originally Posted by Wobble View Post
What do you use? If you have used both, what differences have you noticed between them?
It depends on the EMI from your wifi card to the router. Wifi is more susceptible to drop out/spikes than wired. Remember that wifi is still more or less LoS (line of sight). The more barriers you have in the way, the more degraded the signal becomes. I'm on wifi about 95% of the time. When I parse my latency and jitter values if I'm in, let's say, my bedroom, I will get spikes every now and then (I have a bathroom between my router and my bedroom. Copper, piping, drywall are all excellent at absorbing frequencies) but when I have my laptop 12 feet from my router with direct LoS, nary a spike. If other devices on the network are using wifi as well, it can bring down the entire spectrum (802.11n is backward compatible with g, but g isn't compatible with n. If a g device is on the network, the network drops to g for everyone lowering transmit speeds, but stabilizing connections).

Mileage varies. The goal would be to overlap your transmission radius of your wifi card and router. You could try a higher gain antenna (that let's you modify squelch and DBuV. For good signal you want your DBuV send and receive values to be 90-110. Any lower or higher and you will run into problems) to increase wifi performance or play with your wifi settings on the router (QoS, Prioritization, 802.11n only, DHCP Reservation, Static IP) and on your computer itself (Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings > Right click WLAN > Properties > Configure > Advanced/Power Management. Careful with the advanced settings. When in doubt, Google it first as some of the stuff is confusing. IBSS for example deals only with ad hoc networks and doesn't apply to like 99.999998% of networks).

Wired gives me a stable connection pretty much all the time, but I like having the ability to be portable and not tied down to one room all the time. If I had to choose, I prefer the wifi route. I'll take slight performance issues every now and again over being tied to a desk 100% of the time.

I'm really banking on quantum routing becoming a standard. It's sad that we are still using wireless technology that was developed in 1893 and with so much garbage OTA, we need something new (spectrum is finite).