Wireless vs Wired. Which is best, which do you prefer?

[FPLOON]

<url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBbfvPMmlA>Go ahead envy me, as long as it's USB
I don't give a shit if it's wired or free

Other than that, I honestly don't care enough to go pass the USB requirement outside of MP3 headphones, which I still preferred wired because I lack Bluetooth-esque capabilities within that spectrum right now...

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

My consoles are wirelessly connected to the home network because there's no way I'm drilling holes through walls to reach my network hub with an Ethernet cable.

I sincerely hope you mean network router and not hub, because hubs lack NAT(Network Address Translation), which means connecting multiple devices sends all the data sent through the network to all of the other devices. Not to mention that lacking NAT means external sources(from anywhere on the network or internet) are free to inject data into all of your connected devices. While at the same time all of your ports would report as open/closed on the internet at large, making you a giant "HACK ME!" beacon. Which is a terrifying lack of security in my mind.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

My consoles are wirelessly connected to the home network because there's no way I'm drilling holes through walls to reach my network hub with an Ethernet cable.

I sincerely hope you mean network router and not hub, because hubs lack NAT(Network Address Translation), which means connecting multiple devices sends all the data sent through the network to all of the other devices. Not to mention that lacking NAT means external sources(from anywhere on the network or internet) are free to inject data into all of your connected devices. While at the same time all of your ports would report as open/closed on the internet at large, making you a giant "HACK ME!" beacon. Which is a terrifying lack of security in my mind.

Yeah, I meant "router". I tend to use the word "hub" outside of its proper sense in I.T., seeing as a house's router pretty much ends up being a focal point. The more time passes, the more it's kind of commonplace for a single household to have almost a dozen simultaneously connected objects. Seeing as we have two laptops, one computer, three tablets, three cell phones and two Blu-Ray players, the router is as central, as far as everyday life is concerned, as the living room or kitchen.

 

[cikame]

I don't get on with batteries, i purposely buy older non smart phones because i can go around a month without charging.
As for gaming i'm mostly on a desktop PC so everything has cables, currently using a PS4 controller on some games which i leave plugged in permanently, fortunately the battery seems to be ok with this as i can't feel any of the warmth you get from active charging.
Consoles you can't really get away from it, 360 i never found good rechargable battery packs so it's always plugged in anyway, PS3 the battery in those controllers lasts a really long time so that was good, i have a PS4 but haven't used it yet so i don't know how long the battery lasts, don't have a Wii U but that seems like a nightmare.

If i wasn't so averse to batteries i'd still use wired for faster more stable connections, i never use wi-fi for anything except my 3DS.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

My consoles are wirelessly connected to the home network because there's no way I'm drilling holes through walls to reach my network hub with an Ethernet cable.

I sincerely hope you mean network router and not hub, because hubs lack NAT(Network Address Translation), which means connecting multiple devices sends all the data sent through the network to all of the other devices. Not to mention that lacking NAT means external sources(from anywhere on the network or internet) are free to inject data into all of your connected devices. While at the same time all of your ports would report as open/closed on the internet at large, making you a giant "HACK ME!" beacon. Which is a terrifying lack of security in my mind.

Yeah, I meant "router". I tend to use the word "hub" outside of its proper sense in I.T., seeing as a house's router pretty much ends up being a focal point. The more time passes, the more it's kind of commonplace for a single household to have almost a dozen simultaneously connected objects. Seeing as we have two laptops, one computer, three tablets, three cell phones and two Blu-Ray players, the router is as central, as far as everyday life is concerned, as the living room or kitchen.

Oh I get the point, it was just my brain going "Oh crap that can't possibly be true. Danger! Danger Will Robinson!" But yeah routers are pretty important anymore, unless you're using an access-point, or hot-spot which as best as I can tell are both just rolling a router into a landline, or wireless internet modem respectively.