Cable or Wireless

nickyr

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We've just re-organised our lounge area (where my iMac lives) and it is now located right next to my Airport Extreme.

My question is, are there any benefits to hooking the 2 devices up via ethernet or just leaving the connection as wireless?

We do use other wireless devices here (Macbook, Apple TV, iPhone, Ipod touch).

Thanks, Nick
 
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It really doesn't matter. If you had an external drive connected to the Airport Extreme your access to the external drive would be faster via ethernet, but that's about it.
 
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thanks - guess I'll stick to wireless for now then.
 

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