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.

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    1 year ago

    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!

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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        1 year ago

        8k Video in each eye.

        Not even 5 minutes in - your internet throttles back to 56kbps because you hit the data cap.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.