Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives::How fast do you want your Wi-Fi to go? How does 5.8 Gigabits per second sound? Fast enough for you?

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    Will it make my ISP give me more internets to push through that WiFi? No? Then it isn’t going to change my world, sadly.

    • brian@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      While I think most agree with you, it’s important to note there is more to networking than WAN access. Streaming 4k in your home network over WiFi sounds pretty awesome for security cameras and other self-hosted medias.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Who needs 4k security camera footage streaming in their own home?

        The media center is far more relevant here, but again, current speeds are pretty adequate for the majority of people.

      • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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        10 months ago

        Sure, though in my world none of my networking needs exceed the capabilities provided by the current WiFi generation, thus it remains unchanged. Nor will I see any benefit from it unless I conduct a thorough review and replacement of all impacted devices in my world to also accommodate WiFi 7, which I will not be doing.

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      10 months ago

      My ISP gives 1000mb down, currently no wifi 6 device can fully utilise that unless it’s practically kissing the access point. So it will improve throughput over wifi 6. If your ISP doesn’t deliver more than ~50mb, you might not notice

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      My upload speed is 10mbit/s. It’s 2024, and this is ridiculous. I pay over $80 a month for this internet in one of the largest cities in the United States. I live in a very populated part of the city, too.

      I fucking hate ISP’s.