• stankmut@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The article is about how new products are getting support for Wifi 7, so probably none of your current devices.

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        10 months ago

        My comment was more a rebuke at the headline than the article

        Why would we have eyes on something that won’t be reasonably useful for years?

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          10 months ago

          That’s basically CES in a nutshell. Nearly everything shown off won’t be useful for years.

          The headline seems to be targeted at dedicated Verge readers who know that AI is the current big buzzword at CES, they are likely a bit tired of it, and are interested in something that’s not AI.

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          10 months ago

          The boosted speed is also beneficial for mesh networks, not just end devices.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I just upgraded to a new laptop 18 months ago, it does WiFi 6 I think, the one that’s popular for the Quest 2 headset anyway, and this is going to be my computer now for at least another 8 years, like the last one was.

      Same with the router, which I upgraded to get that newer WiFi, and now it’s going to sit there doing it’s job for probably the next decade, because it does it well.

      Maybe in 2032 I’ll upgrade to WiFi 7, but there’s no real need to do so until then, unless something really important that WiFi 6 can’t handle comes along.