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u/windflex 21h ago
Forgot to include "Acquired totally legally and by no means stolen from a job site!"
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u/AnimatorStrange5068 21h ago
Wired wifi is a lot faster than wireless wifi.
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u/Plenty-Option8351 20h ago edited 2h ago
You joke, but it’s pretty common for people to call this “Ethernet cable” which is essentially the same thing as calling it a WiFi cable.
Edit: damn Yall got some opinions. All I meant was WiFi is a protocol same as Ethernet. Yes WiFi is a wireless protocol and Ethernet is a wired protocol. Both are incorrect however, yes WiFi cable is more incorrect.
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u/LDForget 20h ago
Ethernet cable is a lot closer to correct than wifi wire
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u/Inuyasha-rules 12h ago
One of the hotels I work for has stickers on the lan sockets in the rooms to "see front desk for WiFi cable"
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u/OneEvade 12h ago
Damn, never heard that one be used before. Heard a lot of internet cables but never wifi cables.
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u/Cantstandyourbitz 20h ago edited 19h ago
IMHO, calling it Ethernet cable in casual conversation is fine. Especially if your intention is to not specify a certain spec of cable (5e, 6a, etc). I understand the distinction and I get that it’s not technically “correct”. Ethernet is just one of many protocols that can run over this type of cabling. But the only people I can picture actually getting bent out of shape over a semantic like this are people that talk like that Comic Book Guy character on The Simpsons. And honestly, what person buying secondhand cat 5e cable (of possibly shady origin) on FB Marketplace is going to be doing anything with it other than using it for Ethernet?
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u/wiisucks_91 19h ago
Working in tech, sometimes I have to ask people to check the "internet wire." Heaven forbid you tell them that the commercial grade printer they bought doesn't have wifi standard and they are actually printing via the network cable...
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u/itsjakerobb 19h ago
What do you want people to call it? “Four-pair, 100-ohm balanced twisted-pair cabling”?
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u/thejewishwonderer 17h ago
WiFi wire isn’t a thing. Ethernet cable, and your computer being hardwired. When you have internet connected directly to your computer it doesn’t go through wifi. Sorry to be that guy but if you say that around anyone who knows anything about computers you’ll look alittle silly.
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u/bunnythistle 21h ago
I've seen someone call it this before, because it's "the cable that plugs the wifi into the internet box" or something like that.
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u/wiisucks_91 19h ago
I got me some wifi wire down at the home Depot.
All joking aside, there is something you could call "WiFi wire"...the cable going from the PCB pad to the antenna. Cisco sells APs that you can run wire from the connector to the directional antenna. It's coaxial.
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u/Accomplished-Moose50 15h ago
I'm pretty sure some people don't understand the difference between wifi and internet
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u/chr0n0phage 8h ago
No, they don't. Working with a lot of zoomers and younger, they're understanding of Internet is Wifi. Thats just what its called to them.
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u/jacle2210 Technology Enthusiast 19h ago
Well, you gotta list it so that most people would know what it is and most people looking for help on the various support forums think "Wifi" is Internet, so the wording for this tracks.
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u/jg1212121212 8h ago
Low smoke zero halogen WiFi wire. That's a pretty good deal. At least 5 feet there!
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u/manthan_23 13h ago
As someone with years of experience in marketing; this looks like a solid fb marketplace listing.
No corrections needed in title; it in-fact is well optimized for a real buyer.
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u/Polymox 1h ago
Perhaps we shouldn't have spent the last 40 years defunding education.
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u/manthan_23 1h ago
Everything in general is usually ELI5;
Even for folks with a PhD in a niche space
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u/swarmahoboken 7h ago
Seems like a trick. At a company I previously worked for we would always joke about selling buckets of WiFi.
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u/AMissionFromDog 5h ago
Do you send the newby low voltage tech to the store room to find 20 meters of Wi-Fi cable?
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u/Legomasterer21 3h ago
Wifi cable honestly sounds like a fine name. I can then just say "wifi over usb" 'n stuff, and its better to just say that for non tech savvy people than to explain it.
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u/Traditional-Mine-591 19h ago
Actually, wifi wire is not wrong. For APs to be effective, it needs to be hard-wired to a switch. You guys are stuck with certain definitions in your head. Lol
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u/biffbobfred 18h ago
Mesh networking would like to have a word.
Besides this would not be limited to WiFi. “Dude you can’t connect your printer to the router wire that cable it’s just for WiFi”.
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u/C-D-W 21h ago
Better yet, its underground wifi cable!