WiFi 7

[Zema Bus]

Since I currently have to use wireless where my AI machine is going to be I put a WIFI7 card in it. I did some speed tests with Ethernet and with wireless.

Wired:

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Wireless:

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I'm using a TP-Link WIFI7 WAP that plugs directly into a wall outlet and has an Ethernet port for connectivity.

[Grogan]

That's pretty good, you're very unlikely to download anything that fast from any one site on the Internet.

Where my Raspberry Pi is, in the basement spare/tv room, I get 5 GHz WiFi from upstairs but it's a bit attenuated. Still better than 2.4 speeds, but not ideal. I download torrents about 4 Megabytes/s but that's through VPN and downloading from shitty peer to peer connections etc. Things like package downloads are finished before they'd even display the full download speed so I really don't have any good numbers. (never thought to run a speed test, I'll be using that device again tomorrow night if I can remember)

I don't even know what Wifi "number" I have. I only care that it works and none of my family are Michaeling me

[Zema Bus]

I looked it up, looks like the Raspberry Pi 5 has WiFi 6E, but can be upgraded to WiFi 7. My kitchen computer's motherboard has onboard WiFi 4 or 5, it usually worked well enough for YT videos though often YT would downgrade the video quality to the lowest possible resolution (blurry) and file transfers were very slow. Last year I plugged in a WiFi 6E USB adapter and disabled the onboard WiFi which made a huge difference.

[Grogan]

It doesn't much matter what the devices have, it's the routers that will never be new enough to support the latest gimmicks. (I'll probably be dead before I replace these routers... I like them. TP-Link with DD-WRT. I think they are dual radio for 2.4 and 5 GHz, so it's probably WIFI 1 and 2)

[Zema Bus]

Yeah that's going to be the limiting factor when using a router's WiFi. Adding a standalone WAP would solve that though. I've had to use a separate WAP since 2015 because I'm using pfSense as my router with no on-board WiFi. I previously had a WiFi 5 WAP, I later changed it out for a WiFi 6 WAP, and more recently 7.

[Grogan]

It's not really a problem I need to solve though, I don't much care about WiFi speed. It's mostly for other people and I care more about them not complaining. These Atheros SoCs can take much higher TX power without OOB distortion (unlike the Broadcom SoCs) so my 2.4 GHz WiFi is very reliable and has good coverage (so is the 5G but its nature makes it less practical for coverage). Even if I did, I only have 150 Mbit Internet. 18 to 19 Mb/sec max (usually 18'ish from most sites). I care more about reliability than speed there, too. I haven't been having any trouble lately, it's been probably 3 months since I've had to power cycle the cable modem.