2y ago

Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry's New Priority: Stability

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Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability

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2y ago

Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability

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Sadly a lot of people won't be able to take advantage of it, even in New houses.
I've been telling people to prewire access points and other locations with fibre and copper for the past year or so, and only a few installers have been taking it seriously.
It's such a pity.
- Can you give some more details about which wires you would run? Is cat 6 good enough for the future, or is there something better?
  
  If you're going to run copper, you'll probably want to run 4 of them.
  You still want to run some copper regardless (at least 1 or 2), but I'd also recommend fibre (om3/4/5). OM3 can achieve 100gbps fairly easily, and om4 is even faster
  Om5 honestly is probably more than future proof (is orders of magnitude faster). If you run preterminated, it can save a lot of money on the install too.
  Make sure you run conduit too
The renewed focus on reliability is motivated by emerging applications. Imagine a wireless factory robot in a situation where a worker suddenly steps in front of it and the robot needs to make an immediate decision.
No! You should never use wireless link as part of a decision making system for a robot. It must be done localy with a dedicated real time system. If you can not do it then pay a human to do the work.
You know - and this is a radical idea that nobody working on the wifi standard has contemplated yet - we could, like, improve more than just one thing per iteration, perhaps. Last time I checked, EA wasn't at the helm of this operations, we don't need yearly releases. How about you go away and come back in like 5 years with an actual reason to upgrade my shit. Thanks.
- Did you read the article? There is a laundry list of improvements made in WiFi 7 other than MLO
  
  Tbf the only reasons to read an article these days is to either shit on how bad the headline is, note how little meaningful information it has, and/or post a tl;Dr.
I wish they focused more on extending the range. If my LTE or GPS antenna can extend to a few hundred meters why shouldn't why WiFi antenna too?

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