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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 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I am just glad that 6E and 7 have access to 6GHz so that once my devices support it i can disable both 2.4 and 5GHz to lower interference from neighboring networks. The higher it goes in frequency the less interference everyone will get.

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You wont want to disable 2.4 and 5GHz on wifi 7. The reason it gets so much higher speeds than 6e is that it can send data on all 3 spectrum simultaneously. If you turn off 2.4 and 5GHz you would essentially be limiting yourself to 1/2 speed.

[–] Cycloprolene@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Less RF interference, sure, but a lot more wall and physical object interference as the higher frequencies aren't able to go through them nearly as well.

Overall, it's great to have more spectrum available, especially in a less crowded range. More options means more optimal solutions to be had.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thats true. And the higher it goes the more money you have to spend to properly network. I have heard 60GHz requires you to be in the same room as the AP but gives fantastic speeds. What i eventually plan on doing is buying say a 24 port PoE switch and running 2 cables to the ceiling in each room (for redundancy) and putting an AP in every room. I know that will cost a good chunk of money, but with an AP in every room that would future proof the network for higher and higher frequencies in the future.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're wanting to future proof, run conduit not just wires. For now a setup like that is overkill and probably straight up won't work well, since roaming is a client decision and the clients make really silly choices sometimes.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep! once everything runs on fiber or USB C, you can easily pull more wires to that location!