[Salamander]

I have a $300 Netgear Nighthawk and frankly, the wifi is sometimes crap.

I have my DLink ‘dog cams’ hooked up to ethernet, even though they can work wirelessly because half the time, they won’t load on wifi.

The Nite Owl security cams are all wired.

The TV is a 65” Sharp 3D Smart TV with both wireless and wired.
I have a Sony Blu-Ray/3D hooked to that, and I wire that.
I have Rokus and other things like it stuffed in the drawer that I don’t use since I got the Sony.
Even the DirecTV box has on demand and wireless but it’s wired up, too.

Hard wire for me.
I kinda hate wifi.

:D

[ConservativeMind]

It is very easy to saturate the wireless bandwidth of routers with the sort of utilization for the devices you have. Wireless communications have all sorts of contention issues with devices and external issues like microwave ovens which are slightly leaky and neighbors’ WiFi frequency use. Then, you have issues with WiFi dead spots in some rooms and the standard loss of bandwidth the further you get from the base station and the more physical barriers in the way.

Routers using 802.11 G have limited bandwidth under perfect conditions. Those using 802.11 N do much better (also due to 5 Ghz bands). 802.11 AC has the most bandwidth, but expects much less power use and receiving devices need special sensitivity and discrimination to not be confused by stronger signals using N or G nearby.

It’s a delicate mess.