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Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying hardware for Wi-Fi 7 (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/graybeard@lemmy.cafe

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Using optimization techniques, the wireless spec can support a theoretical top speed of more than 40Gbps, though vendors like Qualcomm suggest 5.8Gbps is a more realistic expectation

That is insane! Not that I would, but this could utilise the full pipe of my home connection on wifi only!

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Call me sceptical then. We're pushing Shannon's law essentially already

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 10 months ago

Call me sceptical then

You're sceptical! 😁

I've not heard of Shannon's law, but if you're referring to Shannon-Hartley theorem then, from my brief understanding, wifi 7 will still bring improvements in bandwidth purely from doubling the channel width. Doubling the number of antennas is probably not going to affect home users as those will probably be prohibitively expensive, but enterprise might snatch it up - who knows.