| Agree, it's not just direct cost of the material. I work in a small software shop (~10 people), and besides me there's only one other guy that could take up the task of running wires all over the office, the others are developers, not sysadmins. We don't have >3k$ "business" desks, we have Ikea desks. Our office is essentially an apartment converted to office. It does have ethernet wall sockets in each room, but it's only 2 per room. We've been talking about wiring the office properly for years, but: - we'd have to run wires on the ground from the wall sockets and protect them properly, otherwise creating potential safety hazards (people tripping, water, ...) - we'd have to add a switch per room, to place somewhere, but the only available places are the cable-holding Ikea desks (not exactly reliable) - we'd have to run and hold cable on each desk, for.... people that mostly use Macbooks, most of which only have USB-C ports; we'd have to buy expensive docks just to fix the ethernet cable in place, when all our screens have power-delivery over USB-C already and everyone has wireless keyboard/mouse To us the investment is simply not worth the effort, not just in money, but also in time spent implementing it and maintaining it. It's simply not a priority, we have applications to deliver. I did work in banks and big corps, and there I always had wired desktops with wifi being reserved for guests (with certs generated by the host ofc). I can totally see small/medium-sized companies growing organically over the years and not getting this addressed as a top priority, as you said wifi is fast enough nowadays. |