Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6::There are a lot of ‘draft’ Wi-Fi 7 devices around, but ‘Wi-Fi 7 Certified’ devices will only come to market sometime next year.
Damn, I don’t think I even have WiFi 6 yet, haha. I’ve just not had any need for faster speeds.
I’m sure something will come along that’ll make use of it though!
Wait till you’re streaming 8k video in each eye of your VR headsets. And, the whole family is watching in their headsets. You’ll need it some day.
That’s why I’m dropping fiber in my house when I do my ethernet drops. Might as well pull 2 wires and future-proof it.
40Gb fiber and CAT6e?
Nice.
It’s even better, because I forgot that our neighborhood was getting FTTH until they started on my street this morning.
This is primarily meant to replace wired local data transfer solutions like thunderbolt. Example, sending video data from a camera to an editing workstation.
The transfer speed of WiFi 7 is just over Thunderbolt 3.
Woah. I assume Thunderbolt will still have latency benefits. For example, we’re not going to have wireless eGPUs, surely? I hope I’m wrong, because wireless PCIe lanes would be amazing.
Cpus won’t be able to handle the interrupts from speeds that high.
Maybe I will finally be able to afford a WiFi 6E router now.
Meanwhile today I get an ad from eero for a WiFi 7 router system that costs $1699
What do I need a wireless connection many times faster than my internet for? Streaming game rendering to future VR goggles?
Most people don’t, and that’s OK. You’ll just upgrade whenever your current equipment breaks down.
But businesses will be a large market share for increased speeds.
me over hear with my gigabit-ethernet plugs in every wall as if they were as important as electricity… upgrade those suckers to 10-gig-ethernet, and wifi-has nothing over other than mobility… mobility until you leave the room… sounds about like being on a wire.
wireless needs a better understanding, and for most that have no understanding they just see faster as better, when no wireless is better than a wired connect, that is why the cellar towers, fiber connection, and even coax-connections all are needed to “power the wireless”.
i’m shocked at how many new or remodeled homes have no “ethernet port” but yet they will have power plugs-n-mass every where in the house, electricity for everything, and then they plugin 5Ghz repeaters into all the wall sockets so that they get decent room to room speeds.
In theory, this should be like having wireless Thunderbolt. Hopefully cameras are quick to adopt this. This would be super handy for sending 8K video to a workstation.
Wifi 6 has become pretty affordable but the high speed 6E is still super expensive.
Is 7 an innovation or just more antennas and processing power usage?
Always wondered about penetration and signal length. Does beat 2.4Ghz, still?
Lower frequency have longer distance coverage, higher frequency have better speeds but shorter distance coverage, and here is common wavelengths of WiFi 2.4GHz 5GHz 6GHz, also new WiFi stands adds new features like mi-mo was added in WiFi 5 and something something raycasting WiFi was added in WiFi 6 and i honestly don’t know what been added in WiFi 7 but specs gonna be better for sure
Pretty sure length is important for penetration. Wait… what were we talking about?
Early adoption might be expensive.
I’ll wait as I put in WiFi 6E last year. I get 500-800mbps. I positioned 3 units through out. My laptops support WiFi 6 and 6E. So…no reason to upgrade since they cannot hit the higher speeds without direct line or adapter.
I’m still on Wi-Fi 4.
