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by Marsymars 1170 days ago
> The majority of my printing happens from my smartphone, so my printer needs to be on wifi

It needs to be on your home network, but it doesn't need to be connected to wifi per se. Ethernet works fine, including ethernet to a wireless mesh AP.
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com2kid 1169 days ago
My smartphone does not have an ethernet port. :)

My house came wired for cat5 (the original cat5!) but modern wifi is a lot faster than 100mbps, so I just use wifi for everything.

Latency is higher, but so is the speed.

Also I only own 1 desktop that has an ethernet port, and I haven't plugged the desktop in for 2 years.

I would actually like to have the TV hooked up to ethernet, since its wifi chip crashes every few days and I have to power cycle wifi in settings, but whoever wired the house for cat5 didn't install ports anywhere, although they did install a large patch panel in the basement, but I have better things to do than crimp a bunch of wires to fix one flaky connection.

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Marsymars 1169 days ago
That's the nifty thing about my second point, with a mesh network - if you put your mesh APs in spots where you have a bunch of wired-capable devices, you can plug everything into the mesh AP and then all the data runs over the mesh AP's high-end radios.
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