Better later than never?

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.

  • ObiniceEnglish
    18•7 months 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!

    • @phoneymouse@lemmy.world
      English
      9•7 months 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.

    • GhostalmediaEnglish
      1•7 months 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.

      • Saik0English
        14•7 months ago

        The transfer speed of WiFi 7 is just over Thunderbolt 3.

        This is so wrong that it’s absurd it’s been here for 3 hours and nobody has called it out. The claim is “more than 40Gbps” (I believe 46Gbps is the number floating around) for wifi7. This will likely require 8x8 at 320MHz or even possibly 16x16 ( I don’t remember if this was floated as an idea or not) which would require more or less the entire frequency range. Fine… But that’s 46Gbps aggregate, meaning for up and down speeds. The split would then be 23/23 gbps, this is paper best case.

        The reality is that you’re going to lose about 50% of that off the top because wireless always does. So 12/12 if you’re lucky.

        What speeds does Thunderbolt 3 support? 40/40… 80gbps aggregate on paper. 22/22 in practice for a data-only channel (other modes can still access 40/22 quite readily). It’s not even close.

      • @clothes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•7 months ago

        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.