• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      You do know that most places use docking stations that connect laptops to multiple screens and… you guessed it… ethernet.

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        2 years ago

        My last job was with a Fortune 100 technical company in a sales position. No one used a docking station and no one bothered with an Ethernet cable. Neither did any of the customers we dealt with. People with desktop computers were wired up but most everyone else used wifi all the time.

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        2 years ago

        Not my last job with a Fortune 100 company. Nearly all of us used wifi all the time. Our engineering and software development groups did use desktop computers with Gig E though.

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      2 years ago

      it’s called a “dongle” and it’s named after a guy named don. No srs look it up.

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        2 years ago

        Lordy, I ain’t never heard about one of them before. You’re a genius!

        Now look around your office and see how many people are using them. There’s not a single person in my sales office, whether sales or engineering that bothers with a dongle because we actually have a well designed, fast wifi network. It’s called “reliability” and you and your company should look that up.

        From the responses here it sounds like many companies need to do the same.