Intel and Broadcom: First Wi-Fi 7 demonstration reaches 5 Gbps
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Typhon Six Six Six
Wi-Fi tech in the past few years has grown leaps and bounds. The number of devices you now can have connected is astonishing. I remember laughing at Wi-Fi routers back in 2001.
heffeque
One of my favorite features on Wifi 7 is the simultaneous dual-band, not because of any potential bandwidth increase (which would be negligible), but because of the reduced jitter (better "ping" consistency). Also that it has all the goodies introduced with Wifi 6/6E, which are also nice.
Silva
Wifi 6 is creazy expensive, let alone 6E. Now we have 7...
Plus, 5Ghz can barely cross a wall. I want to upgrade my Wifi at home but only a mesh system would make sense and those are at least 100€ for only 2 units.
heffeque
I'm confused...
Normal phones now come with Wifi 6. Example: OnePlus Nord 2 5G, Motorola Edge 20, a bunch of Xiaomi, Oppo and Realme phones...
Most ISP in my country are starting to include Wifi 6 in their routers. Example: Digi 10/10 Gbps (30€/month) includes a ZTE F8648P.
Some even 6E. Example: Livebox Infinity from Orange.
And the Wifi 6E card I put on my laptop (Intel AX210) cost me 21€...
How is Wifi 6 expensive compared to Wifi 5?
Typhon Six Six Six
Dude!! you have to try a mesh system. They work well. I have one wifi 6 and I get full wifi coverage on my 10+ acer lot.
k3vst3r
30Gbps is really rapid though, strange to think sending data wirelessly going be faster than using a direct cable connection.
JJayzX
I bet the ports are still 1Gb.
tsunami231
when they say 30Gbps, do they mean total for system or per connection? i was always under impression if was total for system. mean while we till have only 10 Gbps nic that i know actual 10Gbps per device
Silva
True that those specific devices come with Wifi 6 or even 6E. My Redmi Note 10S only has Wifi 5, or 802.11ac for us old guys.
My ISP changed my router this January for an Arris TG2482B and only supports Wifi 5. So I have neither of the devices needed to use Wifi 6 let alone 6E.
Here I pay 25€ for 120/12 Mbps coaxial, fibre companies charge 40€ for 1000/200 Mbps. But the other ISPs are pushing Wifi 6 routers, maybe next year I'll really have to change ISP cuz my dinosaur one doesn't want to evolve.
The least expensive mesh system supporting Wifi 6 costs 300€ for two units: hell no!
I was complaining about 100€ for a Wifi 5 mesh one lmao. I also don't have any Wifi 6 devices so it's useless, for now.
heffeque
What I see on current XGS-PON routers is that they have:
a 10 Gbps XGS-PON WAN port
one 10 Gbps LAN port
and four 1 Gbps LAN ports.
So basically Wifi can work at >1Gbps (which is nice), and one PC/server/NAS can also work at 10 Gbps... and if you want more 10 Gbps LAN ports, get yourself a 10 Gbps switch and plug it into the router's 10 Gbps LAN port.
schmidtbag
My wifi is still on 802.11n. It streams 1080p without stuttering so I haven't found a reason to upgrade. The only reason I might is because my router is so damn old that the connection is becoming unstable. For anything where I care about performance, I do ethernet. I've set up a few rooms with RJ-45 jacks in the wall to make my living space less ugly.
Silva
I had a Wifi 4 router and no issues. But this year ISP upgraded to a Wifi 5 and I bought a phone with Wifi 5: I can say I can't stream to my Bluetooth speaker without loosing internet connection with only 2.4Ghz band. Doesn't happen if I'm on the 5Ghz one, so I'm inclined to upgrade the house Wifi sometime in the future as my downstairs repeater is only 2.4Ghz capable.
The only thing I care about performance and reliability is my gaming PC, that's connected with an old cable I need to upgrade soon. Hope you ran at least CAT6A S/FTP through your walls, bit more expensive but future and fail proof. I know CAT7 exists but it's even more expensive and hard to work with, don't thing you'd benefit from that.
schmidtbag
Yep, it's always such a chore dealing with interference, but thankfully since I moved into the place I have now, I don't have to deal with that due to having only one other neighbor. I'd like to go 5GHz but it just barely doesn't reach far enough, though a new router might add enough dB to make it work.
On the note of Bluetooth though, it never made sense to me why they didn't choose something like 6GHz+. It's meant to be short-range, and the higher frequency allows more data to be transferred more quickly, which would likely save power since it's not transmitting for as long. And, since there would be less interference with wifi, it spends less time re-sending corrupt packets.
And no, I just used whatever old Ethernet cords I already had lying around. My network is still gigabit and my internet is nothing impressive, so I don't yet have a reason to make it any better. However, I deliberately made it easy for me to swap out the cables whenever I am ready to do a proper setup. It should be a 30 minute job to redo all of them.
heffeque
Set both your 2.4 and 5 GHz SSID to have the exact same name, and your device will chose whatever works best (if you are walking with your phone around the house, your phone will fall back to 2.4 GHz if the signal for 5 GHz isn't strong enough, and back up to 5 GHz whenever it is).
schmidtbag
My router is old enough to not have that option, otherwise I gladly would.
Really, I just need to upgrade. I'd like to go 2.5Gbps Ethernet or even 4 but since I don't feel like upgrading my whole network and server, I'll be putting this off for a little while.
heffeque
Your router can't have 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz working at the same time? Or doesn't it allow you to change the SSID name?
Neither of those things sound right. What router is it?
The switching from 5 to 2.4 and back is done by the device, not by the router, so any old cheap router can have this configuration.
mentor07825
This alone is criminal.
Silva
Like any wifi systems with only 100Mb ports but advertise +1000Mb wifi5.
How the f is the Wifi gonna push more than 100Mb if the port doesn't allow it?
What's the point on AC800+ or something if you're limited to 100?
Uninformed people buying those are buying a turd.
schmidtbag
I can change the SSID. I can do either 2.4 or 5, but not simultaneously.
I forget the model but it's some decade old Motorola modem+router combo.
heffeque
Wow... I don't remember seeing any Wifi-N routers without the possibility of having 2.4 and 5 working at the same time. That's really strange, but being a modem+router... and being Motorola... it could be!
