Question

Your customer asks you if it would be worth the investment for him to have Ethernet cabling installed to reach each of his workstations, instead of connecting them by Wi-Fi to his network. Specifically, he wants to know if that would speed up communications for the workstations. You examine his router and find that it’s using 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Would you advise him to upgrade to Ethernet? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Answer:

Yes

Explanation:

Depending on the ethernet standard used, the IEEE 802.3 is faster than the WIFI (IEEE 802.11ac).

The ethernet protocol on cabled networks are of different speed based on ethernet standard which ranges from 10 Mega-bits to 100 Giga-bits per second. This protocol is found in the physical layer of the OSI model.

The wifi 802.11ac also known as wifi 5 is a wireless connection medium in the physical layer of the OSI model. It has a range of aggregate speed capacity of  433 mega-bits per second to 6.77 giga-bits per second.