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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 to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I just upgraded to a WiFi 6E router. Both my phone and my laptop support 6E.

Speeds are great, until you leave the living room (where the router is). Go up to my bedroom, and 6E won't even connect. So it's fast, but 6Hz has trouble going through walls.

Most of the other devices in the house are on 5GHz and that's still super fast and able to reach basically everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the difference between 5Ghz (5150-5895) and 6Ghz (5925-7125) is not really sufficient to blame for most home uses. It's expected as a rule to lose about 10-20% more power than 5Ghz through walls (where 5Ghz lost 100% more power than 2.4 Ghz does). It's much more likely that your new WAP just does less power or worse antenna than the old one did.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Whats a wired access point called?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

A switch?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Wireless defines how you access the point... Not that the access point itself is wireless.

A switch is technically a "standard" access point (or just ports in the wall connected back to the switch).

We use "Wireless" access point to denote access to the network without physical connections.

WAPs can connect to the network via wired or wireless means. Where most people will reference "WAP" as a wired (wired uplink) connected wireless access point... and Mesh (Wireless uplink) WAPs as wireless connected wireless access points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Almost certainly because your router isn't broadcasting at full power (30dbm or 1w).