Most folks don't care about network cabling these days. For many/most common consumer uses, wifi (with mesh nodes or whatevr) is quite good for streaming video and playing online games.
These people aren't seeing the whole picture, but that's not new: They simply don't care, just as most folks have never cared.
And they care less and less as our (rather amazing) portable pocket supercomputers continue to supplant desktop computing in normal Internet-connected life.
Some folks are even actively against wired home networks as a premise: When I'd hang out on Reddit, sometimes I'd see photos of well-orchestrated and fairly intense home network infrastructure, but the new buyer of the home just wants it all gone from their sight and is seeking advise about getting that accomplished.
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The house I live in right now has zero phone jacks (though the overhead wires still connect to the house before disappearing completely), and it only has 1 run of functional coax (which connects to the docsis modem).
I've added some decently-installed Cat 5e, which is completely adequate for what I'm doing. (That's been a trend for me for decades: When I live in a place, I tend to hardwire my stuff.)
But the next person probably won't care about that at all. If I move out and come back to visit in 5 years, the cabling I've added will probably have been erased.
And in the next place I live, I'll probably have to add more wire again. That's normal to me; again, I've been doing that for decades now.
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And that's OK. I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to computers and networking.
Most people are not that way at all, and most people never have been that way. Most people don't give a fuck about this stuff at all.
And this is all completely acceptable.
(I guess I could choose to hate it instead, but life is too short to hate this kind of thing. Acceptance is both simpler and better-productive.)
These people aren't seeing the whole picture, but that's not new: They simply don't care, just as most folks have never cared.
And they care less and less as our (rather amazing) portable pocket supercomputers continue to supplant desktop computing in normal Internet-connected life.
Some folks are even actively against wired home networks as a premise: When I'd hang out on Reddit, sometimes I'd see photos of well-orchestrated and fairly intense home network infrastructure, but the new buyer of the home just wants it all gone from their sight and is seeking advise about getting that accomplished.
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The house I live in right now has zero phone jacks (though the overhead wires still connect to the house before disappearing completely), and it only has 1 run of functional coax (which connects to the docsis modem).
I've added some decently-installed Cat 5e, which is completely adequate for what I'm doing. (That's been a trend for me for decades: When I live in a place, I tend to hardwire my stuff.)
But the next person probably won't care about that at all. If I move out and come back to visit in 5 years, the cabling I've added will probably have been erased.
And in the next place I live, I'll probably have to add more wire again. That's normal to me; again, I've been doing that for decades now.
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And that's OK. I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to computers and networking.
Most people are not that way at all, and most people never have been that way. Most people don't give a fuck about this stuff at all.
And this is all completely acceptable.
(I guess I could choose to hate it instead, but life is too short to hate this kind of thing. Acceptance is both simpler and better-productive.)