We expect to see Wi-Fi devices able to detect the distance to other devices that are nearby, not only the distance, but what is the direction to those devices, with the ability to become a sensor to detect distance, to detect the presence of people, to detect gestures," Cordeiro claimed.
“Essentially what we are doing is that we’re going to be able to make devices be context aware, aware of their surroundings, and that’s going to enable and open up the ability for new applications to be developed,” he added.
Yay. Granular tracking. Exactly what we were asking for with a WIFI protocol.
cool, so now I have to turn off wifi when I leave the house.
oh wait, I already do that.
Feature proposed by China and US, I’d say.
Russia’s making wifi illegal instead…
They are waiting for Wi-Fi 8 :)
I haven’t kept up with the newer wifi’s, but isn’t this just beaming foaming+
Anybody know how it might effect power consumption? I know routers are dirt cheap to run, like $1 a month, but I’m sure it will have a measurable impact at the scale of a large nation.
($1 * country population) / (average price/kwh)
There are a lot less than 1 router per person. I hope.
Counting offices/public spaces with several repeaters, and then people with some repeaters at home, it might be close though
then adjust the population to be population / avg household size of the country. can multiply that by the rate of households with internet too
then you have to contend with all the non residential routers as well. could very well be 1 router per person or close
Good. 7 is a pain in the ass to deploy and very fussy. I’m this close to killing my 6hrz shit.
I have UniFi 7 Pro and killing 6ghz fixed the constant connection dropouts.
I’m on 6, very stable and fast enough for me (like over half a gbit), is 7 just worse?
7s the exact same. 7 added the ability to combine 2.4 5 and 6ghz bands into one connection. But in my experience the speed difference vs just 6ghz is negligible. Instead of 2gig over WiFi you get closer to 2.4. Woo.
