You may ask, 'Why should I be concerned about installing wires now, when I can always go wireless in the future?' This is a valid question. It's true that wireless is gaining recognition and popularity as an alternative to wired solutions. But much of the time, wireless is used where wired solutions don't exist, and where wireless may be the only cost effective solution available. However, given the choice, the benefits of a wired solution are many. Wired solutions are less expensive, are not subject to interference from other wireless devices, and operate at much higher speeds.
Expense: Wired solutions require fewer components and sub-systems, so they should always be less expensive.
Interference: As more and more users turn to wireless solutions and deploy more and more wireless devices, the potential for interference will continue to increase. Today, wireless telephones, microwave ovens, and wireless data networks all share the same radio frequencies. The potential for interference between these increasing numbers of devices will only increase.
Speed/Performance: Wired solutions have always operated at higher speeds. The challenge for the wireless product vendors has been to try to catch up to the speed of ever faster wired devices. For example, todays wired data networks easily operate 20 to 100 times faster than typical wireless solutions. One example where this is significant is HDTV. A wired solution has the speed and capacity to move HDTV programming throughout a house; a wireless solution does not. Certain applications simply will not operate over a wireless solution.
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