Is it better to use N WiFi or Cat5e ethernet for large file transfers?

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Published on 2012-06-23T07:03:44Z Indexed on 2012/06/25 9:18 UTC
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I have a network containing 802.11 N WiFi Devices and gigabit ethernet devices, however using only Cat5e wiring. I know that if I used Cat6, the ethernet would be much faster however if I need to transfer a large file between a device thats connected normally connected via ethernet and a device thats normally connected via WiFi, would it be advantageous to bother plugging the WiFi device in to the network? or should I switch the ethernet device to WiFi? or does it really matter?

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