Spectrum efficiency helps even lower speeds in dense environments. It means your device can go radio silent quicker allowing higher throughput in those environments.
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Spectrum efficiency helps even lower speeds in dense environments. It means your device can go radio silent quicker allowing higher throughput in those environments.
Does it make sense to have a WiFi bandwidth significantly greater than your internet bandwidth? As it stands, my 802.11ac router provides a practical bandwidth of 2.5 times my Internet bandwidth … 200Mbps versus 80Mbps.
Hopefully they put in WiFi 7 capable next year, but could only hope. Phones haven’t improved much in functionality these few years, hopefully we see a quantum jump soon.
We’ve been on 6 since the iPhone 11… the year it came out.
Most mesh setups are about coverage not throughput, specially the ones without external antennas.
Why Fi?
I'm running Apple 1200 baud and it's fast enough for me, especially compared to my old Hayes 300 baud.
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I'm running Apple 1200 baud and it's fast enough for me, especially compared to my old Hayes 300 baud.
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What about the 6E that is available now, but not on the iPhone?
You are likely gonna see Wi-Fi 6E in an iPhone before you see Wi-Fi 7. Apple is likely saving Wi-Fi 7 for the 20th anniversary iPhone.
If a NAS or a server can feed data at 500 megs or even a gig, it won’t matter if you have a 1 gig receiver or a 40 gig receiver, you’re only going to get it at the speed of the transmitter.
Unless you kill a chicken.
Only if you're moving large files around a local network via wifi, which almost nobody does without realizing how much speed they really need.
It’s really disappointing that Apple still hasn’t added WiFi 6E. They also were slow with adding WiFi 6 to their devices.
A far cry from the company that added 802.11n when it was still cutting edge and introduced the mainstream wireless laptop (iBook).
Though Apple may be salivating at those theoretical speeds when thinking about a port-less iPhone. Too bad no one will see anything close to that in the real world.
A far cry from the company that added 802.11n when it was still cutting edge and introduced the mainstream wireless laptop (iBook).
Though Apple may be salivating at those theoretical speeds when thinking about a port-less iPhone. Too bad no one will see anything close to that in the real world.
Until 8k video streaming becomes standard and everyone is screaming for more bandwidth. I certainly have no need for faster speeds at the moment, but if they don’t start advancing the tech now, it won’t be ready when we do need it.
Unfortunately Eero software doesn’t have that kind of adjustment, so you pretty much get what you get.
Righto, fine, but what happens if your work involves large data files such as video etc...?
A quick google for 8k HDR file size comes up with: "One hour of 8K RedCode Raw 75 amounts to 7.29 TB. That's 121.5 GB per minute for raw 8K footage."
That's 7.29 TB x 1000 x 8 Gbits = 58320 Gbits
With Wi-Fi 7, the max theoretical speed, if you have a perfect connection, and aren't sharing the connection with anyone else, is 40Gbps, so that 1hr of video takes 24.3 minutes to transfer.
Now sure, the final product being shipped to customers isn't going to be RedCode Raw 75, but if you're working in video production, you have to deal with these files during filming and post-production.
Now do you understand the need for speed? And while we are at it, the need for more and more RAM and SSD size.
And also while we are at it, why the iPhone Pro, with it's fancy HDR 8K filming capability, still running on the Lightning cable, and old Wi-Fi versions, but costing the price of a MacBook these days, is infuriating to many Apple fans.
Then you need to be FASTER!!!
i'm good with wi-fi 6 for now. it's quite overkill for my house lol in fact i don't think any of my devices actually can make use of it except my ipad pro. there is no rush to move over to wi-fi 7 and i can't see myself doing that for many years yet. i would be fine staying on 5 but a 6 router was cheaper so why not?
apple probably realised it's not worth the effort to implement 6E and they shouldn't worry about 7.
most people will be fine with wifi5/6 for a long time. if you have to ask yourself if you need 7 then you don't need it. stop worrying about it. 5 + 6 are more than good enough for the next 5-10 years.
apple probably realised it's not worth the effort to implement 6E and they shouldn't worry about 7.
most people will be fine with wifi5/6 for a long time. if you have to ask yourself if you need 7 then you don't need it. stop worrying about it. 5 + 6 are more than good enough for the next 5-10 years.
If you can't think of a reason you need the current speed, let alone faster speeds, then you are not using the right mindset. While I agree there isn't much need for a phone, or iPad or Apple Watch to have multi-gigabit wifi, there sure is a need for production devices to have it.
There is a lot more to "networking" than internet. Example, an editor working at home may need to move 60GB video files around from a server on to a laptop. Sure the NAS has a 10GBE ethernet jack, and sure your home is wired for 10GBE (I mean 2.5Gbe is the bare minimum these days for home networking, really 10Gbe is the way to go) so finally you can roam around your house and edit from anywhere on your laptop. Finally you can stream multiple 4K or higher videos off that server to multiple TV's at once. Finally wireless 8K is possible without lag. Sure if you're a gamer you will always prefer a hardwire (ping time is always better over copper!) but for most average users finally having speeds that are acceptable will be a welcome change from the drudgery slow wifi 5 & 6 that most of us are on now.
Basically if you can't imagine a use for it, then you probably don't need it. Doesn't mean its bad. Some of us are very excited to finally get potentially useable speed from wifi and no longer be tethered by copper to desks.
Does Apple really have this reputation?
My iMac Late 2013 was one of the first computers in the world to have Wi-Fi 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). So much that it was an antenna based on draft spec.
