Router Question - Help Needed.

[butt]

OK. Heres the deal:

We were talking (complaining) on TS the other night, about how our better halfs will sit on the couch watching the "Real Housewives of Where Ever" and update their narcissistic Facebook postings from their laptops. In doing so, they hog the router resourses, and F-up our hardwired PC connection to the shared router.

In the funny conversation, in which I said absolutly nothing disparaging twoards my lovely gf, dark said it was common knowledge that a computer connected wirelessly takes more effort to send and recieve data, than a wired PC does.

So..... With my exceptional explination given, I need cold hard facts (links of articles) to stick in her face! Your lagging comandant would appreciate your assistance.



Butt

[Eric]

Switch the wireless bit off. 

I have done it the past and lived to tell the tail 

[Into-the-dark]

here is a website http://www.setupwirelessrouter.com/Which-is-faster-wireless-router-or-wired-internet.htm

it is basic but the problem is multifaceted the connection is obviously slower but the use of wireless uses more of the routers resources there fore causing more delay that is as simple as i can put it.

I will ask my teacher tomorrow more about it but it has to do with the protocols and loss of data in transmission causing the need for redundancies

[Groovechild]

Would have to dig up some article links, but in a nutshell, a hardwired connection has minimal to no loss as the signals are hardwired and you get occasional collisions, which are easy to resend. When you are wireless and using radio, there are lots of (re)transmissions bc of the interference. Essentially you are (re)sending the same data several times (potentially) to post your facebook status wirelessly rather than via hardwire. It's not just facebook, it's anything. Try gaming wirelessly and you'll see random lag points if you are a good distance from your router and not using Wifi-N.
That said, most (recent) routers do a good job of handling it. What is a bigger killer is sessions (using torrents) as now you have tons of connections that the router has to track, and you WILL see lag if you are using a torrent client on your network whilst playing as the CPU on the router has to keep track of all of the concurrent connections/sessions.

[Groovechild]

Here is a link to a business dilemma of the same type: http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2010/080210-wifi-interference.html?page=1
If you can get girlie hardwired you'll increase network performance. She'll have to give up the roaming laptop. Good luck with that