• marcos@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yes, but tell that again when you and 19 other people bring your laptop to a conference room and try to login on the network at the same time.

    Different things have different strengths, and losing one of those things means your experience will be subpar.

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      8 months ago

      So, I haven’t worked in IT in a couple decades, but back in the late '90s/ early '00s, all the conference tables at the companies I worked for, had Ethernet ports built into the table towards the center, and a switch mounted under the table so that everyone could just plug in. Did they stop making those tables once WiFi became ubiquitous?

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        8 months ago

        Yes, they stopped. The ports were never sufficient, people always wanted to move the table around, and the cables and connectors in the table were always breaking.

        Besides, there are always people far from the table.

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          8 months ago

          It’s true, they used to be more available and then they stopped making those tables for those reasons (and they were more expensive).

          Yes, in a conference room setting with more than 3 people it’s better to have wifi, no disagreement there. In google’s case here it sounds like they’d bring a mobile hotspot in so everyone could see the documents together, which is not ideal but would work.

          Still, they’d have ethernet for the video sharing so they could just put a router in each conference room (a huge pain to admin, but - it’s google) and everyone gets wifi in the conference room and no one is very slightly inconvenienced.

          OR - y’know. Bring back the ethernet. Werd.