I’ve always run my MacMini’s internet via Ethernet. I just always figured that it would be faster than using the Airport.
I used to use Airport only on my Powerbook, and thought that it was slow. But I now realize that this was probably because my Powerbook was only 500mhz.
I decided to give my room a bit of a clean up yesterday, and decided that there were too many wires going across the back of my desk. So I thought I would get rid of one and start using the Airport in my MacMini. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the results.
Setup
As I expected, there was no setting up to do. I don’t have any security running on my router as I believe in sharing my internet, and I’m pretty sure none of my neighbors know what a wireless network is anyway. I simply turned on the Airport in my MacMini and away I went.
Performance
Wow… I thought that my Internet would be a little bit slower using the Airport instead of the Ethernet connection, but to be honest with you, after using it like this for a couple of days, I haven’t noticed any drop in speed at all. Everything seems to be running as normal.
I thought it was too good to be true, so I decided to start streaming the March 08 keynote from Apple’s website. Not one single glitch the whole time. Amazing…
I haven’t had a chance to test out copying of files over the network as yet, because I’m still waiting on my new MacBook Pro to arrive, but I’ll update this post when I can.
Closing Comments
I should of done this sooner. I know for sure that when I’m setting up networks for friends from now on, I’m going to make them throw out their Ethernet cables!
