• Psythik@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    10 months ago

    No. It’s not good enough yet. I’d like to have wifi that doesn’t instantly drop speeds if I’m not less than 2ft away from the router. Still waiting on that technology. Wifi will never be “good enough” until it’s as good as ethernet.

    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      10 months ago

      That’s why I said “pretty much everybody”, because I knew there was you

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        Wifi cannot ever be better than ethernet because all APs will use ethernet to connect out to other things.

        But wifi 6 on my laptop can reach higher speeds than the ethernet port on my laptop. In that regard it actually is better.

        • Trollception@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          10 months ago

          True, but that’s just your laptop. Ethernet can reach 25 gigabits far and away faster than any wifi.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      10 months ago

      WiFi 7 isn’t gonna make the range issue better. IIRC it makes a mesh network even more necessary.

    • fidodo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      That’s probably fixed by getting a better quality router or adding access points if the issue is the building blocking signals. That’s not a problem with the standard, and the new standards are for even higher speeds which actually have lower range at those bandwidths.