TL;DR: incremental improvements and
maximum throughput of at least 30Gbps
lol no
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Well, if the router is within 1 meter, and there are no sunspots, and you drain the blood of a freshly castrated rooster into a silver bowl underneath your computer.
I heard WiFi 8 will come with a flexible antenna that you can connect directly to your laptop.-
And not just any rooster. Wi-Fi AX supports a few varieties, but Wi-Fi 6 will require the blood of an Ayam Cemani rooster, the rarest breed, to power the argent energy required
gotta get that black cock
Consumer grade routers with multiple 10gbps ethernet ports are very rare, and yet we'll have 30gbps wifi before 10gbps ethernet goes mainstream?
Certainly not on consumer routers thermal throttling at 5 connections.
You're confusing consumer routers with cheap shit your ISP gives you for free. Buy a high end ASUS router and you won't have issues.
Sounds very exciting for the 5 people that have an internet speed of higher than 1 gigabit
I'm joking, it's cool that we're starting to support this standard from now. The improved latency is interesting because I was always under the impression that the router is the bottleneck.
Or the people with local media servers with multiple terabytes worth of movies on it
Be really cool if you could use a net to grab the data out of the air
Every monkey has a gigabit at home https://balticom.lv/lv/internets I mean €18 per month is not that expensive.
Now as an Estonian, I'm not a fan of occupation, but.... y'all down south have some nice internet pricing, would you like to annex us?
Oh wow, what's wrong with Germany? Even UK has it cheaper and UK traditionally has the most expensive internet in Europe due to some British Telecom monopoly issues...
Government thought it was a good idea to let a single company handle nearly all of our web infrastructure
Noooo! You guys are missing the big use case for WiFi 7: VR headsets
It's finally going to have the bandwidth to stream SteamVR to dual 4k-ish displays without hiccups in actually high definition (no noisy compression). Even if you have to dedicate a WiFi AP for the task it'll be vastly superior to the situation we have today which can suffer from significant lag spikes and poor quality.
I've done streaming VR with a dedicated Wifi 6 AP on my Quest 2 headset and the occasional lag spikes made games like Beat Saber unplayable (and I was only about 4-5 feet away from the AP).
Nah, client radios have generally been the bottlenecks for a while now, at least since AC Wave 2, and particularly when they don't speak modern wifi and drag every station in range down with them.
Legacy clients are the worst.
Most people in my country use ISP-issued routers running on WiFi 4 and you guys are already on 7!?
God damn, apparently they came out with six nee wifis while I wasn't paying attention.
I just got WiFi 5 last year and you guys are already on 7 😰
Don't worry, the improvements between 5 and 6 are not really needed for home connections which is why I skipped it. WiFi 6 improvements were mainly around channel selection and wider bands to allow larger amounts of clients to connect to a single AP in a large campus environment. It could help at home, but only if you have a LOT of devices connected or have a lot of interference.
Babe, wake up - new wifi just dropped
Cries in Australian (25 Mbps)
I just upgraded to Wi-Fi 6 finally. Already amazed. Waiting to get fiber before I do any more network upgrades
Stop it. You’re scaring the client devices.
I kinda figured that Wifi 7 was coming soon once my ISP started deploying Wifi 6 routers.
It seems like with every WiFi update since the dawn of time, they've been "improving" speeds when multiple devices are connected. And yet, there's no noticeable improvement.
Similar to battery technology or parking lots, adding more capacity just means more is used. Less incentive to be efficient, too. The gaps get filled and it feels like nothing improved, but in absolute terms there definitely has been an upwards trend.
entirely new very wide mid-microwave band? call me luddite but i'll stay with 2.4 ghz for long range p2p links
Wifi 7 can communicate with any given station (client) on all bands at the same time, so there's really nothing to complain about here.
Multi-Link Operation (MLO), a feature that increases capacity by simultaneously sending and receiving data across different frequency bands and channels. (2.4GHz, 5Ghz, 6GHz)
if client supports this feature that is
these broadband and multiband antennas (6ghz band is like 20% wide) will require much better and more complicated designs with tighter tolerances than what you could find in 2.4/5ghz band devices