My home is wired with Cat5E and a gigabit switch, and my wired connection delivers consistent, uninterrupted, near-zero-latency 1gbps connectivity 24/7.
I have two different nice wifi APs running all the latest standards and even on new devices supporting the latest and greatest the best I ever see over wifi is about 300-350mbps, plus a couple additional milliseconds of latency. Plus the random little transient wifi hiccups that just happen from time to time.
I can see about a dozen other wifi networks in range of my house, so some radio noise out there but nothing crazy.
And now that I also have symmetric gigabit fiber, only my wired connections can come anywhere close to saturating my WAN bandwidth.
If you have the option/ability, wired is going to crush wireless every time. Wifi is great for casual use and I'm glad it has gotten as good as it has, but for real work/gaming/whatever there's no contest.
I have two different nice wifi APs running all the latest standards and even on new devices supporting the latest and greatest the best I ever see over wifi is about 300-350mbps, plus a couple additional milliseconds of latency. Plus the random little transient wifi hiccups that just happen from time to time.
I can see about a dozen other wifi networks in range of my house, so some radio noise out there but nothing crazy.
And now that I also have symmetric gigabit fiber, only my wired connections can come anywhere close to saturating my WAN bandwidth.
If you have the option/ability, wired is going to crush wireless every time. Wifi is great for casual use and I'm glad it has gotten as good as it has, but for real work/gaming/whatever there's no contest.