What’s the reason behind wireless being slower than wired? will it ever overtake it?
In: Technology
Wireless communication is like talking to a friend out loud. If you’re in the same room, you can have a normal conversation. If your friend is outside the house, you can still talk to him – you’d just have to yell. If he’s across the street, you’d have to scream at him and maybe at that range, you wouldn’t be able to understand some things he’s saying. Keep going further and not only is your communication slower, but more inaccurate as well. And because of all those misunderstandings, you have to slow down your speed of communication.
Wired communication is like talking on a phone – landline, if you prefer. You pick up the phone and can have a normal conversation regardless where your friend is in the world.
So, at current tech and the foreseeable future, I’d say there’s no way that wireless ever beats wired. Physically, air is just a worse conductor of electromagnetic waves than copper wire and there’s not much we can do to change that. Perhaps in the future, we can communicate through methods that ignore the transfer medium – gravity waves, perhaps? in which case wireless would be fine … but for now, no.
Latest Answers