Most likely, having a hard wire would have made 0 (no ) difference. Depending
on the type of FIOS you have, that’s the qualifier here. Unless you have a
service greater than 300 megabits it won’t make a bit of difference. If you
have a 50 megabit service for example it takes the same amount of time to
transfer using WiFi as it does wired because the choke point here is the actual
Internet connection, your download will go only as fast as the slowest link.
Now, if you’re like me and have the 500 megabit FIOS service then my answer
changes. WiFi unless you have the latest 802.11AC (which the latest macbook
pro does support) you have a theoretical maximum of 1.3 gigabits but in most
settings, you’ll get a full gigabit over the wire and something less than that
over WiFi. In that setup it’s possible the WiFi could be the slower choke
point than either the Internet connection or the Wire.
If you still do want to buy a wire or if you really do have one of the
faster tiers of service buy a category 6 ethernet cable. They make them
varying lengths or you can get your own ends and wire and cut the wire to your
own specific length. I would suggest remade wires if you’re a new user as it’s
the most simple. You’ll plug one end in to your router, the other in to the
port on your computer and you’ll be good to go. Note on the Macbook Pro you’ll
need a specific ethernet adapter which is not included and is a $30 add on.
Make sure you have this port if you want to go the wired route. Let me know if
that helps and I wish you good luck.
> On Sep 20, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Eileen Scrivani <etscriv...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> What type of cable do I need to get to connect my Mac Book to our Fios,
> fiber-optics, internet connection? Since there will be another update for
> the OS soon, I don’t want to do any more updates of that size over a Y-FI
> connection. When I updated to Yosemite a month ago, it took all afternoon &
> evening for it to complete the download/install. It hit me after the fact
> that it would have gone much faster if I had been hard-wired to our internet
> service.
>
> FYI, Its a Mac Book Pro
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eileen
>
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