Linked by JoanneRodgers on Thu 15th May 2008 23:02 UTC
In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, "Bill Gates' house, for example, is totally out of date now. He built it right before wireless happened. The big tunnels for all his wires - he doesn't need any of that stuff anymore." The article wasn't about networking, or even technology, but I was struck by that statement because it was echoed by several people when I was explaining that I was running many thousands of feet of cable in OSNews' "house of the future." "Is all that cable really necessary now that there's wireless everything?" people said. As much as I respect Martha Stewart's business and design acumen, neither she, nor those people who talked to me, know what they're talking about. When it comes to networking, there's no substitute for a wire, when a wire's available. -- This is the latest entry in our 2008 Article Contest. 
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I have a server at home that has dual NICs each with a gigabit/Sec connection to help me speed up data transfer of over 20GB/Day and the wires I use are Cat6, and I cannot imagine running the slow wireless N that I have to serve my needs.
Wireless technology is way less reliable than any wired alternative and it could be garantted in work and it should be the only one available when you run critical applications where you need your device available 100% of the time.
I had quickbooks and Network printer to serve the business I am in and I had times when I create an estimate or invoice and after 15 minutes of creating it Quickbooks tells me the communication with my file server is lost and I can no longer enter that data I spent 15 precious minutes prepairing.
Wireless in my opinion is a luxurious networking technology that can be used in laptops or very limited desktop applications.
Also I have seen many routers (<200$) fail regularly with wireless if there are heavy traffic passed through them.
I have replaced hundreds of Linksys, D-link routers with such problems and the other brands are like a plagaue, that you have to avoid.
Even if you want a more reliable wireless connection they will ask you to buy an APs (Access Points) and connect then via wires to your router to make you SSID more powerful and available throughout your house or business.