Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months agoCanada, one of our primary ISPs offers fibre to the home with speeds of 1Gbit and even higher. So many threads on their forums with users confused why they can’t get anywhere close to 1Gbit and it always turns out to be WiFi.
ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can get very close to 1 Gbit on Ethernet but top out at maybe 400 Mbps on wifi.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Exactly, wifi 7 will probably get us to or close to practical 1Gbit wireless speed vs theoretical 1Gbit speeds.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Wifi 6E already does that, I get about 940 Mbps with my phone on my 6GHz network. That is maybe 10 Mbps less than I get wired.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 months ago
If you have a non-congested area, 6e is just as fast as 7. 7 just brings a wider channel width and the ability to hop between 6ghz and 5ghz.
maxprime@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I wonder about ping. Will it ever be on par with Ethernet for online gaming?
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Single channel WiFi probably is unlikely to get to sub millisecond response timesas it is shared air time for both send and receive of all devices, wifi 7 multi link might help if it can route some traffic on different channels but over all I never expect it to get close to what wired Ethernet can do.