Technology

72000 readers

2700 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

290

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 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

73 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

40Gb fiber and CAT6e?

Nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's even better, because I forgot that our neighborhood was getting FTTH until they started on my street this morning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

8k Video in each eye.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Cpus won't be able to handle the interrupts from speeds that high.