I was reading up on the life expectancy of different building materials when I came across this gem.

Screenshot is of page 122 https://www.portseattle.org/sites/default/files/2025-02/SEA-SIPP Technical Report Appendix C Life Expectancy of Building Materials.pdf

I guess the ethernet cables could last that long, but they rate house wiring to a lower lifetime. Ethernet cables are not “wireless”, however.

The only other wireless systems I can think of are garage door openers, but they are definitely not expected to last 50 years.

  • Soapbox1858@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    12 hours ago

    Pretty unlikely anyone will want 50yr old WiFi tech for normal use. If the capacitors even last that long. I know vintage computer collectors have to recap a lot of machines to keep them going. As a camera collector myself, the early electronics in cameras are often dead already, or ticking time bombs for failure.

  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    11 hours ago

    Technically speaking it’s probably accurate. The equipment itself is probably capable of working for 50 years.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Except there’s so much software in all of those things that you’ll just be opening yourself up to a ton of security flaws if they stop being patched.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      10 hours ago

      This is the truth. I have some really old equipment going way back,and it all still works. It’s just… nobody really wants a 10 megabit hub over a 1 gigabit switch.