Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI

A lot of innovations in WiFi aren’t about having a better access point for home use.

And when did decent mesh systems start costing $1K+?!?!

When they can transmit over 10gbps

I wish I had 10g into my house. Well maybe not, it would probably be VERY expensive

That doesn’t mean you couldn’t benefit from those LAN speeds.

Stares at my home networking stack.

Oh I know… I get leftovers from work for my home lab. But enterprise WiFi will never be a thing you’d need in a DC. 48 port 10GbE Cisco switches is another story 🙂

Of course they sound like a jet engine …

Lucky you not having jets fly over your place in DC, unless your in Glover Park/Georgetown then you get to hear the planes going to National at 7 am

I used to scoff at people who would say “just get an access point”, but after looking at too many mesh systems last years with their ridiculous prices, I went with couple of access point and I do not regret it.

Good!! now the AI will mindcontrol us through Wi-Fi 7…

Isn’t wifi good enough for everyone already? I mean, it’s great to have upgrades but pretty much nobody needs it

No. It’s not good enough yet. I’d like to have wifi that doesn’t instantly drop speeds if I’m not less than 2ft away from the router. Still waiting on that technology. Wifi will never be “good enough” until it’s as good as ethernet.

That’s probably fixed by getting a better quality router or adding access points if the issue is the building blocking signals. That’s not a problem with the standard, and the new standards are for even higher speeds which actually have lower range at those bandwidths.

WiFi 7 isn’t gonna make the range issue better. IIRC it makes a mesh network even more necessary.

And Wifi will never be as good as Ethernet assuming both standards continue to evolve.

Wifi cannot ever be better than ethernet because all APs will use ethernet to connect out to other things.

But wifi 6 on my laptop can reach higher speeds than the ethernet port on my laptop. In that regard it actually is better.

Oh yeah? Tell me when they make Ethernet wireless /s

The chad ethernet vs the virgin wifi.

That’s why I said “pretty much everybody”, because I knew there was you

Sure, it’s already good enough for everything I use it for. However, I hope and expect to be doing cool new shit with way better wifi in 20 years. So, in the chicken and egg problem of technical capability vs cool applications, I am fine with increasing specs way in advance of killer apps.

The biggest benefit to wifi 7 that I’m excited about is streaming wireless VR headsets without extra equipment to a PC.

Could you elaborate on this? I think you mean wireless PCVR over wifi, but that’s achievable lag free on wifi 5

Currently video is being transmitted compressed with up to 50ms of lag, from what I can find. Wifi 7 should be able to fix both those issues.

https://www.roadtovr.com/wifi-7-certified-launch-latency-wireless-vr/

Most don’t need faster internet than 50mbits/s either, doesn’t mean you won’t like having it. A more reliable and faster wi-fi is always welcome.

That’s what I said

But this one is one better.

Agreed. What tipped me off was the number 7, which is 1 higher than the number 6. I can’t believe people can’t see how much better it is!

To be fair, we’re getting diminishing returns every iteration. 7 is only 1/6th more than the last one. And 8 will be just 1/7th. I don’t blame people for being a little fatigued by this.

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