Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days 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-square6linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 16 days agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squareAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 days 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-up4·16 days 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.
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.