Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoNext-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss in challenging conditionswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
arrow-up147arrow-down1external-linkNext-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss in challenging conditionswww.tomshardware.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareFiveMacs@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agolol some aren’t even using 6, let alone manufactures not really even using 7 but yet 8.
minus-squareAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoWiFi 5/AC seems to be the modern “baseline” these days. Makes sense since the standard was released in 2013. WiFi 6/AX is becoming more common though. I haven’t seen any WiFi 7/BE networks so far. Most places have either 5 or 6.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months ago802.11ac was a huge improvement over 802.11n. The later versions have only given a small performance increase unless you don’t have neighbors and can run wide channels.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoWifi tech went wild last 5 years. New standards every other year. With that being said my old router was not working well after laoding it up with modern amount of devices lol
lol some aren’t even using 6, let alone manufactures not really even using 7 but yet 8.
WiFi 5/AC seems to be the modern “baseline” these days. Makes sense since the standard was released in 2013.
WiFi 6/AX is becoming more common though. I haven’t seen any WiFi 7/BE networks so far. Most places have either 5 or 6.
802.11ac was a huge improvement over 802.11n. The later versions have only given a small performance increase unless you don’t have neighbors and can run wide channels.
Wifi tech went wild last 5 years. New standards every other year.
With that being said my old router was not working well after laoding it up with modern amount of devices lol