What’s the reason behind wireless being slower than wired? will it ever overtake it?
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Simple answer.
Wireless signals are kind of a garbled mess. Theres so much that happens between producing a signal and receiving one.
To send something wirelessly, the computer takes your message, turns it into a completed sudoku puzzle (not literally, but it serves my analogy), and sends that. The majority of the puzzle can be lost, but you can still use the remaining data to figure out whats missing. Both ends take effort and time.
Wireless has a lot of redundancies that help, but the quality is so low and theres so much correction going on that it just slows things down. Its not something that can be overcome with better hardware, its a fact of life of sending things wirelessly.
Wired signals are much cleaner. Less junk to interfere.
Be warned this explanation is an oversimplification of concepts that take years of study to properly grasp.
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