Posted by taubek 16 hours ago
So it is getting faster (in both senses) and doing so in scenarios that actually matter.
Modern wifi is fast enough that using cables is often not required.
I would expect this crowd here to not make these mistakes as ofte. :-)
B is defacto for storage…
Like seamlessly switching between Wi-Fi, nG, Bluetooth, satellite, pigeons, cans-and-wire.. and still having a stable global address? (that you could change later of course)
Most improvements on that front has been happening on the application layer, where the app attempts to retain functionality even though the underlying network conditions are changing, to various degrees of success (mostly not that great).
IIRC siri uses it and iOS (maybe macOS too?) exposes it to app developers.
Shouldn't that be our end goal with all this tech?
No. Just no. That speed is only possible when standing at a Nevada test range, in late spring, on a ladder, holding the router above your head, with a black cat sitting on your left shoulder. Any minor change from those parameters and your speeds will be 30% the theoretical maximum ... maybe 50% if you can only find a grey cat.
The 95th-percentile latency and packet-loss targets here seem much more meaningful than another 2x headline speed increase.
My only scepticism is how much of this survives real consumer hardware. Wi-Fi 6 had things like OFDMA that sounded great on paper, but support/implementation was pretty uneven.
I'm using 802.11ac and see no need for higher speeds.
Higher speeds automatically means less latency and that does matter, especially if you are into stuff like games where every millisecond matters.
There’s so much interference that the package dropout rate is around 40% at 2.4GHz usually.
So having the 5-6 AP is not the problem, then shouting at max power is the problem. Especially “gaming” routers tend to do this.