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Intel to Introduce Wi-Fi 7 in 2024 as Apple Plans Imminent Move to Wi-Fi 6E
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Good lord, what on earth does this sequence of words mean?
I know the quote from the Intel guy seems to have been mangled a bit by the language translation, but there's no excuse for anything outside of quotation marks to be this unintelligible.
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okay...who cares? when was the last time that the common individual was finding new developments in wifi technology relevant to their smartphone usage? i cant imagine a poll of users showing a majority going "my life would be dramatically changed by a major jump in wifi technology on my smartphone"
i, personally welcome all improvements, but that's because i keep up to date with them and thus, notice. tech enthusiasts will care, majority of users aren't buying a new iphone because wifi 6e was included. apple doesnt tend to stay on the bleeding edge of tech anymore as it is. they were quite behind the curve on implementing 120hz display tech vs their competitor.
saying *no one* uses an ethernet dongle with their smartphone is just a statement by someone who looks around their house and concludes that to be definitive proof.
not only do lightning to ethernet dongles exist, but there are many reasons why one might find those useful.
If you have an older home wired with Cat 5 cable it looks like Wi-Fi 7 perhaps may be faster (unless you re-wire your home with newer cable)
Like Doomtoom said, there is a limit to range, but you can get a bit more with a better router. Before going mesh, I replaced my Airport with an ASUS AX5700. Mine is the plain black one top left below copied from opeter’s post earlier. This is a great router and gave me another 10’ of range, which was all I needed. Doesn’t sound like much, but I did a rough calculation and might be something like 70% more useable area.
anyone with a NAS will happily use and *need* more than 1gbps transfer rates.
you should stop making conclusions off of your own personal experience. other people exist, hard as that may be for you to realize.
cat 5 will still be more stable. the limiting factor there would be for anyone with a NAS who wants to get higher transfer rates, or if their home is in an area with greater than gig speeds available. ISPs are finally starting to advertise. 2.5gb, 5gb, etc. fiber connections.
Apple was a company to be reveled when it used to care about the Apple ecosystem. Back when making ridiculous profit wasn’t put ahead of making things work within the Apple ecosystem and beyond. 6E should have been in the iPhone 13. We live on our devices today they should be quality and have maximum accessibility while being infinity secure.
they're a part of it, and are deploying it with a HomeKit upgrade later this year. most modern devices can support it with an update. anything that already has Thread support can be switched over.
they could deploy a router any time now that could later be updated with Matter support. AppleTV's already can operate as a border router for Thread, and are confirmed to be getting Matter support as part of tvOS 16.
iirc HomePods will get it too.
what does your experience have to do with it? you're on ac still by choice. you could have been on WiFi 6 for a while, and 6e has been around since the beginning of the year (iirc one or two devices were available very late last year.)
I just wish Apple would get back into the router and time capsule/NAS game?
Parents Extreme finally gave up the ghost about a year ago. Replaced the whole Apple setup with a TP-Link router and two repeaters. The router works fine but one of the repeaters needs to be rebooted weekly. Such a PITA.
And, even then, all that new and improved gear has less coverage for their home than the Apple WiFi 5 gear, which had been bulletproof, had.
Sigh.
apple.com/feedback
Parents Extreme finally gave up the ghost about a year ago. Replaced the whole Apple setup with a TP-Link router and two repeaters. The router works fine but one of the repeaters needs to be rebooted weekly. Such a PITA.
And, even then, all that new and improved gear has less coverage for their home than the Apple WiFi 5 gear, which had been bulletproof, had.
Sigh.
apple.com/feedback
A few things:
I would love Apple to get back in the router game also, but that's another discussion.
Wireless speeds currently are fine for devices that need wireless access. What I would love to see is better management of wireless spectrum, especially in dense environments with lots of other networks/RF interference.
6E helps for this as 6Ghz is both fast, and can't travel far, so you are less likely to get interference from neighbors also using 6E. Sure you'll need more access points to cover the same amount of space, but since walls will effectively kill the signal you won't have to worry as much about channel overlap.
As others have said: If it's important, hardwire it. No one should be trying to do real home networking over wifi. Sure it's ok for moving internet around the house, and slower overnight backups, but real home networking (NAS, etc) needs a hardwire or you will be miserable. Try streaming 4K from your NAS to a Plex Device over wifi. Nope.
I would love Apple to get back in the router game also, but that's another discussion.
Wireless speeds currently are fine for devices that need wireless access. What I would love to see is better management of wireless spectrum, especially in dense environments with lots of other networks/RF interference.
6E helps for this as 6Ghz is both fast, and can't travel far, so you are less likely to get interference from neighbors also using 6E. Sure you'll need more access points to cover the same amount of space, but since walls will effectively kill the signal you won't have to worry as much about channel overlap.
As others have said: If it's important, hardwire it. No one should be trying to do real home networking over wifi. Sure it's ok for moving internet around the house, and slower overnight backups, but real home networking (NAS, etc) needs a hardwire or you will be miserable. Try streaming 4K from your NAS to a Plex Device over wifi. Nope.
hope u dont write this, on every content u re not interested in....
Not always. Not anymore. If you have a direct link to the router, sure. But if you are maybe 2 or 3 patch cables plus in wall plus wall jack(s), you might get faster and more reliable speeds with a 6e connection directly to the router.
At this point Eero filled that ease of use gap and is easy to set up though it requires a mobile app.
On Prime day I ordered a wifi6 three pack to replace my airports. I turned off the wifi on the Extreme and put the eero in bridge mode so I still manage the network on the Extreme, but I have a faster and more reliable mesh wifi network now.
Yes we are doing ok with 25. I do wish sometimes you could just rent a speed boost for when you need large downloads.
And the other annoying thing that I'm not sure is anymore is you can have theoretical 1Gbps, but if the remote server isn't giving you that, it's pointless.
Yes another piece on top of the remote server actually uploading at your speed.
Sadly, not always. UHD TVs still use 100mbit connections for the most part of them.
Greetings
David
