Why the hell is a professional tech business not relying almost-exclusively in ethernet, anyway?
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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Because if you walk to a meeting room with your laptop, you don’t want to plug it in every time.
Also phones and tablets are a thing.
This doesn’t sound like a serious problem for a company like Google. They can afford to solve it by brute force — just put a Wi-Fi hotspot in every single room.
That would be problematic on many levels.
why is that?
Radio interference and roaming are the primary concerns. There's only so many channels that Wi-Fi can run on, and they will clash if there's too many APs near the same band. You also have to ensure that each device is configured to disconnect from a weak signal and connect to a stronger one when moving from room to room, which realistically doesn't work flawlessly. You want to instead have a few powerful access points in each wing or whatever needs dictate.
You can reduce transmit power and enable meshing and roaming in conjunction.