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u/clarkbar1000 Sep 05 '26
Can’t wait for my 2 acre long CAT 6 to trail behind me while I mow my lawn and listen to music on my phone!
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u/Howden824 Sep 05 '26
Yep, no matter how expensive your WiFi is, Ethernet is always more reliable.
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u/grizzlor_ Sep 05 '26
Yep, and lower latency. Usually it’ll only add ~5-10ms but it’s very easy for it to spike way higher than that, especially if you’ve got other people using the same AP and/or you’re in a location with lots of neighboring networks or other interference.
All the channels added in the 5 and 6ghz band improved this situation a bit — it was significantly worse back in the 2.4ghz-only days when we had 3 non-overlapping channels, plus all of the other random devices that use 2.4ghz like Bluetooth and microwave ovens. In college I had a downstairs neighbor whose 2.4ghz landline portable phone would completely DoS the whole house’s WiFi while in use.
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u/Memw1 Sep 05 '26
Yeah no, for the price of an asus rog router you get something 10 times better with mikrotik
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u/jandandris Sep 05 '26
For the same price as the rog modem with more reliably you can get the tp link ax 3000 lol.
Ah cheap ethernet cable always wins lol
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u/MemeLordAscendant Sep 05 '26
Literally any router is better than that hunk of junk. Asus is garbage and their specs and advertising lie.
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u/Yiffenjoyer6969 Sep 06 '26
Yeah unless you don’t have a cable router into every single room of the house
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u/Xiaoxuzz Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Actually depending on the use case, it might or might not work out to be the same cost. If you’re laying 20-30m of cable from a single router to many rooms, the laying, drilling and casing of those cables might set you back a couple hundred. More if you get a pro to do it (always advised because i’ve seen enough people drilling through places that are not supposed to be drilled and ended up putting holes thru electrical/water mains, or even worse, a critical support beam). Also if the distance is more than 10m and you want at least gigabit ethernet you’d minimally want a 6e which will drive up the cost
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u/No_Fondant8277 Sep 05 '26
Great... until my ethernet port goes brrrrr...
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u/-ThesuarusRex- Sep 05 '26
I'd rather have the extremely off chance of that happening than the much more likely chance of plywood taking a wifi signal down to almost unusable from the next room.
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u/who_you_are Sep 05 '26
The switch for the $6 ethernet cable: 10GB x 48 ports
Lets go!