Wi-Fi 7? Why not!

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PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston International standards bodies are just months away from finalizing a wireless networking improvement that’s being
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So tell me what kind of end user needs even the WiFi-6 speeds and bandwidth?

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So tell me what kind of end user needs even the WiFi-6 speeds and bandwidth?

Famous last words: “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981.

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I’m not using even one-tenth the speed and bandwidth of my WiFi5 network. But I live alone in an apartment on one level.

And I usually don’t use anywhere near all the cores, the speed and the RAM available in my computers. Windows and Linux almost never seem to swap in my PCs, which are not extraordinarily powerful or over-provisioned. I’m not back at Bill Gates 1981 levels, but close to them.

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Although Wifi6 routers have been available for several years, Wifi6 cards are just now seeping into our world of computing.  Even today, low-end consumer computers and many mobile phones are built with Wifi5 inside.  The primary advantage of Wifi6 today seems to be the availability of more streams, not greater individual device throughput, allowing for more devices to be active at the same time.

The match between Wifi6 router and computer equipped with Wifi6 results in very smooth and quite fast wifi.  The ability of a router to switch a computer seamlessly between the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies is advantageous for both computer users and network admins.

But when will we see Wifi7 built into devices, to match better with Wifi7 routers?

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“How many bloody G’s are there?!?”

Ozzy Osbourne

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https://youtu.be/0_LaZMw_Eas

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Intel: Wi-Fi 7 coming to Windows 10

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/230078.html
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/234444.html

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rc primak wrote:

So tell me what kind of end user needs even the WiFi-6 speeds and bandwidth?

Can we really even get these kinds of speeds in the U.S.A. ?

Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan when speaking astronomically used Billions, not Trillions.

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These are not Internet protocols. The WiFi-6 and WiFi-7 standards refer to indoors WiFi router bands and protocols.

So yes, everyone everywhere can make use of these new bands at their full speeds and throughput capacities. IoT devices could proliferate, and some households have multiple gamers and people who would use 4K and even 8K Next-Gen TV and try to stream it throughout a house.  I am not in these situations, but they can easily be imagined.

Home servers and media servers are also edge cases where additional throughput and speed would be useful to some people, or so they think.

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rc primak wrote:

So tell me what kind of end user needs even the WiFi-6 speeds and bandwidth?

Everybody needs higher Internet, wi-fi.. speed.

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Charlie wrote:

rc primak wrote:

So tell me what kind of end user needs even the WiFi-6 speeds and bandwidth?

Can we really even get these kinds of speeds in the U.S.A. ?

wi-fi speed has nothing to do with location.

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Will Fastie wrote:

Famous last words: “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981.

I do still miss the sound of my never failing Modem
though I love the speed of Wifi-6.2

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You may have to upgrade your Windows 10 PC to Windows 12 or 11 if you want Wi-Fi 7 (6GHz)

A month ago, towards the end of August, a report surfaced that suggested that Intel and/or Microsoft could be limiting upcoming Wi-Fi 7 to Windows 11 and newer…

Interestingly, such speculation was seemingly put to rest by Intel as it listed its first Wi-Fi 7 modules (BE200 and BE202) which denote support for Windows 11 as well as Windows 10 on their spec sheet…

However, despite Intel officially listing Windows 10 on the supported OS list for these devices, there is a very good chance that full support for Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10, just like with Wi-Fi 6E, may not be officially available. ..

Netgear:

“The 6 GHz wireless band was introduced with the WiFi 6E standard and is exclusive to devices that support WiFi 6E and newer standards, including WiFi 7 and successive future WiFi versions.

Microsoft Windows PCs must use the latest Windows 11 operating system release and have a 6 GHz WiFi-capable network adapter with the latest drivers installed to access the 6 GHz wireless band.”

NOTE: Microsoft recently announced that they are not backporting 6 GHz support to Windows 10. Even if you have a 6 GHz-capable network adapter, if your PC uses Windows 10, you can’t use 6 GHz WiFi until you upgrade to Windows 11…

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