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Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6::There are a lot of 'draft' Wi-Fi 7 devices around, but 'Wi-Fi 7 Certified' devices will only come to market sometime next year.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm still on Wi-Fi 4.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Always wondered about penetration and signal length. Does beat 2.4Ghz, still?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If the cause of the poor 2.4ghz range was tons of interference on that band, then maybe. But lower frequencies simply go farther, so 6ghz will always have a lot shorter range than 2.4ghz. Though while it's impossible to change the laws of physics, it might be possible to change the laws around wireless telecommunication to allow it to transmit at a much higher power - not sure if WiFi 7 does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure length is important for penetration. Wait... what were we talking about?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In theory, this should be like having wireless Thunderbolt. Hopefully cameras are quick to adopt this. This would be super handy for sending 8K video to a workstation.

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