• RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world
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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.

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        I heard WiFi 8 will come with a flexible antenna that you can connect directly to your laptop.-

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        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

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      Consumer grade routers with multiple 10gbps ethernet ports are very rare, and yet we’ll have 30gbps wifi before 10gbps ethernet goes mainstream?

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        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.

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    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.

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      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).

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      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.

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    I just upgraded to Wi-Fi 6 finally. Already amazed. Waiting to get fiber before I do any more network upgrades

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      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)

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    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.

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      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.