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so provided your office is small enought in might actually be beneficial to have direct access via wifi. especially given the fact that for example wifi 6e will be able to out pace (or at least come verry close to) wired gbit ports...
As a avid user of 6E, my life experience is different. For me, dedicated Gigabit wired will outpace 6E (even at @ 6GHz) in most real-life situations almost all of the time. Short of sitting in the line of sight, with zero interference, single-user case, etc. wireless systems struggle to achieve anything close to their nameplate performance.
For one, WiFi systems have to distribute their bandwidth across all users whereas a wired connection may dedicate all its bandwidth to just one user, with minimal latency. Secondly, that gigabit connection can feed into a good switch from which high-volume data can move on in larger 10GbE+ trunks. By contrast, many WiFi systems now advocate for meshing, which is great for retrofit applications in older homes but a stinker from the point of view of flooding the airwaves with packets.
Where I can, I offload everything to wired / optical and only allow that to be wireless that has to be - for performance reasons. Minimize the strain on the wireless to maximize its availability / bandwidth for the users that must use wireless.
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