Eh, Wifi 4 is still good enough.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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I stayed on decades old Apple wifi routers until my big upgrade to Wifi 7. I will be here for quite a while.
I feel like a majority of tech has been in this rut for a while. CPUs, GPUs, audio, wifi, 4g VS 5g, screens/tvs, etc. all seem to provide the most incremental upgrades each iteration. For a while phones seemed to be making leaps and bounds, but feel relatively the same generation to generation now.
I think the main area I feel like I've seen some movement is battery tech. Some new materials and better/longer batteries are making some movement, but tech hardware feels relatively static the past decade or so.
I mean at least batteries is one of the main areas where improvements will make big improvements. Even when GPU's double in power, I can barely see the difference in graphics. For my computers, the only thing that seems to matter any more is how much RAM and disk I have free..
~~Wi-Fi 7~~ Marketing is Lying ~~About it's Biggest Feature~~
Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they're lying until proven otherwise.
Marketing is literally manipulating you into buying something. Lying optional, but highly likely.
You can consider any ad as lying until proven otherwise.
Youtub link and nothing but a headline = 👎
Click bait marketing of some shitty YouTube channel.
Dude look at my history before making such accusations. I'm just lazy, sheesh. I'm sure if I was promoting my channel I'd put more effort into it than that.
You’re kinda a new user who has posted a good few YouTube chats, so your history most likely gives a certain perception.
Fediverse is not really about promotion, brand building or karma, you will likely get called out. It’s more of a community, welcome. It does help if you at least add some context of why you think your posts are beneficial to others.
I'm a former lemm.ee and world user with years of history you can look back on (double yours for example). I am not affiliated with any brand which is blatantly obvious if you look at my post history.
I was lemm.ee too. You don’t have to prove yourself, but i do feel people get called here (i have felt it too) if it has even a sniff of it, and i can see why lots have left commercial platforms due to on-growing promotion and dramatisation.
My first thought was what is the discussion here? is it about gaming or as always manufacturers exaggerating...i am not trying to poke the bear. I can come across sarcastic (i can be) but at the same time i have the curiosity of a 5 year so i often ask questions that seem factitious or to be stirring trouble. Its not 😀
I do feel like I have to prove myself for others in this thread that don't bother to do even a little research before making accusations and for what? Posting a link? To a YouTube video on a channel I have literally never posted from before? I could understand if it was a channel I had posted a lot of before, then it would be fair to be critical.
And for the record I didn't take any offense to your statement. It was just the most sane of the criticisms, so the one I decided to continue the thread with. The others I suspect might be brigading me for criticizing .ml in the past or something.
We all have times where we get cranky, we also all have times we feel attacked. Non of us are saints. You just have to say hey bless you, go away...then move on.
We err we are human, i like being part of a human community, esp that cares enough to protect its space. Don't let this discourage you posting, we need people and chat of all types.
I blocked them >:-}.
I have no patience for people who's approach to life is to criticize folks who are doing there best to contribute no matter how small when in most cases they are doing nothing positive whatsoever themselves, just bringing poorly researched accusations of others work.
I'm happy to have a debate based on evidence and research, If the best you can bring is to bring others down with zero effort accusations, there is no value of having you around.
Nobody cares about your history when you are spamming click baits for your videos. Raging about it not being appreciated makes you no favours either, princess.
The time will come, and sooner than we expect, when we all struggle to make ourselves distinctive from cheap AI bots (with their agendas).
Post it your damn self then
- your damn self then
Video description:
Wi-Fi 7 routers promise game-changing speed, lower latency, and more stable connections. All thanks to features like Multi-Link Operation (MLO). But do these routers actually deliver on everything their marketing promises? We tested the MLO capabilities of 25 routers to see if the hype is justified, or if it’s all just marketing.
Article so you can swerve the video: https://dongknows.com/wi-fi-7-mlo-multi-link-operation-explained/
Added to the description thanks
Biggest issue with this stuff as almost always is that the average consumer finds this too complicated.
The fact you have to have everything a modern and up to date wifi 7 setup, including all your devices, and make the right decisions over topology pushes it out of reach of anybody but an enthusiast or someone paying for a top tier install.
Excluding people who cannot lay cable between their mesh points because they renting, a wired back haul is always going to be more reliable and consistent. Plus the average consumer gear loses one or more radios to do the back haul.
Biggest thing wifi 7 offers is better coexistence between multiple heavy users on the same access point, assuming everything is wifi 7.
The speed increases are irrelevant to 99% of the population as I can still max out a 1gb synchronous internet link on wifi 6. My current back haul is 2.5gb, if and when I go wifi 7 I am looking at going to 10gb otherwise what's the point? How many enthusiast level aps come with 10gb back haul?
Why do you feel you need 10Gbit? I only just upgraded mine to 2.5gbit when I went WiFi 7 and doubt I will even have one endpoint doing that any time in the near future, considering it will max out the wifi router even at that speed. I don't expect multiple at the same time for many many years.
A home server with an SSD can reasonably saturate 1000MB/s. An actual home use case can be made for 10Gig.
Yes, if you want to put all your data on your NAS and access it remotely, it can make good sense. I wouldn't personally do it, but it's a valid reason to do it.
I upgraded because my local system's storage is all(mostly) server-side. Having 10Gb vs 1Gb(or 2.5Gb) is noticeable when loading things like games or image/language model weights. I've been considering getting the hardware to bond 2 connections, but I don't imagine that I'd see much noticeable performance improvement (but the benchmarks would look pretty!)
That makes sense. I have a NAS but I use it more for backups
Just throw up an NFS export and use fs-cache: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/caching/fscache.html
It works pretty well, the only annoyance is if your NAS isn't on it is pretty annoying but that rarely happens (unless a failed upgrade nukes both your graphics firmware and the package manager at the same time and you have your server's USB ports disabled for security reasons so fixing the problem requires disassembling your server cabinet, server case and extract the hard drive to which you need to grab hard copies of recovery from a safety deposit box... in which case, chin up... it happens to all of us. x.x;)
Oh I know it's possible, I just don't want to do it, I have enough troubles in my life ;-)
Future proofing, at some point I will go 2.5gb sync or higher on my Internet pipe, the connection I think can go 10gb sync with some upgrades to the local exchange.
Also because I can, and almost everything else I own for my back haul already has 10gb ports and the bandwidth to support it including my router and all my switches.
Do I need it? Absolutely not, its just fun to do and the only reason I haven't done so yet is cost of suitable hardware.
Yeah I tend to wait until I could at least hypothetically use it because you pay a big premium to "future proof". 10Gbit is still too pricey for me to roll out.
Its not that bad if you go with mikrotik, but their configuration isn't for everyone as its a long way from say Asus in terms of simplicity.
Their budget 8x10gb is about £220, pretty reasonable for a fully managed switch. Sure its not going to let you max out all 8 ports at the same time with multiple vlans even with the hardware offload, but whose expecting that from a budget switch?
I am never really going to benefit from it fully, not least in the short to medium term. What I will get is the fun from upgrading.
silly question, how do people find the need to have 1 or more Gbit uplink, I have .5 Gbit and honestly I feel like it is overkill
I only did 2.5gbit because that's the max my WiFi 7 network could handle. I don't think I will ever max it out in real world usage.
Damn, you got some harsh comments for just posting a YT link.
Thanks for posting. We need to grow the fediverse, and low-effort stuff like this helps too.
Thank you for appreciating my minimal effort attempt to increase the amount of content on Lemmy.
Yeah wtf, I watched the video earlier elsewhere but I knew it was a good source (also dong knows tech) but the comments here have been the worst I’ve seen on this site… “Sounds like ai so I clicked off” god forbid you speak eloquently…
It is more than most contribute. ( ^ ᴗ ^ )
Its likely as its marked as discussion. I haven’t really explored all the post types myself but as fedi grows dropping them in the right format will likely ease this.
I feel like we need bot /rss option one from content that just imports in. It usually tends to have a link/vid and no context of why its there. Its not wrong of it to be there but it can get frustrating scrolling past this stuff. I am not saying it saying it should be there for artificial engagement either...so this could allow me to filter by format.
I also miss video and creative content (i have dumped insta) i am not sure this is the place for it, but i appreciate it, however I do hate the manufactured youtube crap. I agree AI voice and Youtube Voice are an instant irritant to me. Vids have to feel and genuine and beneficial not just another wannabee...these people used to go into car sales.
Do you have all those categories for posts? Or is that just a suggestion ?
I use voyager, so I only have media,link,text as options. I must admit, as much as I love the fediverse, it can be a bit confusing sometimes .
I clicked, it sounded like an AI generated voice. I turned it off
There's a guy in the video who looks pretty real to me, but who knows, fakes are getting pretty good.
tbh, I didn't get that far. It could be legit. It just didn't sound legit, and I didn't see a person in the first little bit I watched, so I turned it off before giving it much of a go. When combined with the clickbait headline, I just felt like I wasn't going to get much out of it
I can summarize it for you. No wifi 7 routers support true wifi 7 multi link operation. Some support band switching but also in a limited way. Some are better or worse implemented than others.