Wired over Wireless

I know someone who thinks that we should be entirely wireless. (Or at least that’s the way it sounds when they have commented about it in the past.)

I bring this up because I am currently proving my point. Yesterday I fired up my laptop and got three blue screens, each was fixed by Windows without extra effort on my part. Way to go Microsoft, it wasn’t very many years ago were that would have been a half a day lost researching and fixing the errors. After the blue hell and Microsoft save, I logged in and started doing the numbers on the files I want to save off that laptop. Forty gigabytes of data in thousands of files.

I started uploading files to Dropbox. About eight hours later the end was in sight. Why did it take so long? The short version is: I did it over wifi. I started round two of uploads this morning and as of a few minutes ago the estimate is about 20 hours on a different set of files via wifi.

I switched to wired and saw the time shrink to around 8-9 hours.

Eight to nine hours.

WiFi can’t go faster than wired, possibly in the future, but not right now.

I could and may yet back up the files from yesterday and today to one of my USB hard drives, just not today. I am getting tired of backing up and bandwidth hogging.

I have a feeling that if the person reads this, the response would be along the lines of “so”. I would have to walk away, not cause it would frustrate me… them saying “so” would instead provoke an emotional response of “why did I just waste my time trying to explain it?”

I think that is how they roll, which makes them appear to be a jerk or worse. They don’t seem to know or care. Why should I?