• Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

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

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.