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Originally Posted by NitroNutter
Wireless is discussed here quite a bit recently,
Linksys came up quite low on performance tests on several 54g wireless products,
Wireless is prone to interference, ie portable phones, and microwaves when in use kill it stone dead,
No wireless product when tested outside of the manufacturers has ever hit its rated speed. (this wont bear much relevance if you dont do much transfer)
Wireless is prone to eavesdropping known as warchalking and the likes, there are guards with wep and mac filtering for this, but any firmware upgrades usually kills your settings and you gotta re do them, (settings saved to file all to often wont work after a f/w update), and nothing is un hackable, theres plenty of bruters available to crack open your wep,
and if you hardwire someone may break in and drop a line all the way to their house.
had wireless for over a year and its good but its not a 100% in fact 802.11b is about 80% performance and 54g is about 33% performance, dual channel 54g is about 25% performance, its likely you will suffer real poor performance at some point when you really could do with it operating respectably, so i ditched the lot cept 1 WAP and a pci just incase Its ever needed in emergency, I decided a £35 hardwire kit from B&Q was far better, more reliable, more secure, and allways a lot faster, will be there for when I have 1Gbit, and if installed neatly is a house asset, I allways hesitated from doing this in the past as I thought it would be difficult but its really no harder than wiring a plug, i wired 3 beds and the living room of which if you look close you will see about 6" of wire as the only visible portion and that is neat and discreet. to do 4 rooms you really need 1.5 kits but @ £70 that is considerably cheeper than solely using wifi all round.
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