Very impressive speeds. Meanwhile most of my devices are still on Wi-Fi 4 (n) and I have no plans of upgrading my Wi-Fi 5 (ac) router from 2014 until it dies.
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MediaTek Demos Next-Gen Wi-Fi 7 Standard Boasting Near Thunderbolt 3 Speeds
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Yeah, because corporations want kids forget about wire, make wire obsolete, legacy, and want them to be removed at all costs.
We just upgraded to 'ac', and it's FAST! Like really fast. *ZIP*, compared to 'n'. I can't imagine faster still.
Bring it on! I'm sure something will come that can swamp it! (Something always does, doesn't it)
Bring it on! I'm sure something will come that can swamp it! (Something always does, doesn't it)
I would hope WIFI 7 could deliver power up to 100W per device.
If not, your untethered VR use case would require a power cable hanging behind your head, adding a data cable inside that power cable is not that much inconvenience to the user.
To me, the bottleneck of todays global internet architecture is the backbone and the submarine fiber infrastructure. Those things are maxed out before your home connections unless the content you are trying to reach is cached locally at an ISP datacenter or edge node close to you.
9.6x2.4 = 23 < 30 not >
Am I making a silly mistake here or one of these numbers must be wrong?
Most of that is one target. However, a router with a 2.5Gbps ports to the modem or to the modem and the internal wired LAN could be useful down the road. If have 1Gbps of aggregated WiFi traffic and 1Gbps of aggregated wired Ethernet traffic both going through the router to the Internet having 2Gbps of "backhaul" would be useful.
But yeah, a 100% WiFi6 set up. Probably not going to see much. However, with several 1Gbps wired ethernet traffic aggregated up or some 2.5 NAS-to-Client traffic going on then the 2.5Gps ports on the router make more sense.
Faster wireless may be the thing to finally get the wired Ethernet solutions to finally move on from 1Gbps as being the "volume units" solution. 2.5GbE should be standard on a decent desktop computer these days. Same thing with mid-range NAS and affordable switches. Pretty shure the latest Intel PCH chipeset for Gen 12 (Alder Lake) has 2.5 support built in.
Alder Lake S: Overview and Technical Documentation
Learn about Alder Lake S. View processors features, architectures, and more.
www.intel.com
If bought the chipset it is 80+% already there anyway ( already mostly paid for it).
Macs ... yeah it is a problem. Most of the line up has no Ethernet jack and even entry iMacs lack a port. But the bulk of the desktop market over next 2 years 2.5GbE should be standard. Gen 12's mobile PCH don't have it but that should trickle down by the 800 series rolls around.
Are closer to the point where a bigger number of folks will get 1Gbps. The numbers are 'big' so the price tag can be 'big'. Wifi 6E mesh routers are expensive. Wifi 7 is pretty much an excuse to at a minimum keep the numbers high (or worse get even more router price creep inflation. )
An "all Apple ecosystem" solution would more likely be Apple XR/VR/HR devices to some other device ( Mac , iPad Pro ) . A way to offload some of the compute out of the headset without using a physical wire tether. ( if the transmit/receive power increase trade-offs the decreased compute power consumption. )
For untethered VR - 802.11ay. It’s amazing that VR over regular WiFi works at all, but having over an order of magnitude more bandwidth would really, really help.
You'll definitely need a Monster Cable AC power cord so your WiFi 7 router can reach its fullest potential.
Translation of the article from marketingspeak into English: "we really want people to line up to buy our chips using the latest buzzwords, even though the chips with the current buzzwords are plenty fast enough for nearly every real world scenario".
Wireless 8k streaming? How hot of a market do they think that is? How many people already have 8k TVs and have a desperate need to use a $500 WiFi7 access point to connect it, instead of a $15 ethernet cable?
Speed speed speed speed.
Latency and interferrence and reliability are what keep people using Ethernet. It has nothing to do with speed. It hasn't been about speed since 802.11n.
Latency and interferrence and reliability are what keep people using Ethernet. It has nothing to do with speed. It hasn't been about speed since 802.11n.
So, what new discovery they found to make it faster? Why we couldn't have this when Wifi5 was released? 2023 is not that far, people hardly bought Wifi6, in fact , i heard Wifi6 is not fully rolled out.
I think your 4G is having a problem with heat issues because its trying to find a signal, my understanding is that if the signal is weak it works harder to gain it causing heat issues.
So realistically speaking, currently Wifi5 can reach 700Mbpps or so in perfect conditions, with Wifi7 what shall we expect?
I think your 4G is having a problem with heat issues because its trying to find a signal, my understanding is that if the signal is weak it works harder to gain it causing heat issues.
So realistically speaking, currently Wifi5 can reach 700Mbpps or so in perfect conditions, with Wifi7 what shall we expect?
Except it’s in perfect strength and can sustain high speed download for a while without too much issue aside from overheating.
Faster WiFi is always welcome. It will take some time before standard becomes official and routers with WiFi 7 support are available in stores.
At some point, we might actually need tinfoil-hats.
In large apartment-blocks in Europe, it's already the norm to see dozens of WLANs from all the apartments left, right, below and on top of you, sometimes even from the next building.
In large apartment-blocks in Europe, it's already the norm to see dozens of WLANs from all the apartments left, right, below and on top of you, sometimes even from the next building.
It will be interesting to see what WiFi 7 looks like in 5 to 10 years…
Generally as frequency goes up, bandwidth goes up whole distance and permeance go down. This is why 5g has sub 1ghz and sub 6 ghz designations - 6ghz+ is basically line of sight.
That is quite an exaggeration.
Even 60GHz (802.11ad/ay) works adequately ”in-room”. (Of course, if you hide it behind/within objects that block the signal you’re asking for trouble.)
Horses for courses. I don’t know what will emerge as the consumer standard after WiFi7. The tradeoffs are complex.