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[–] 18 points 10 months ago

I mean, about time

My (admittedly 6E, not 7) router only gets close to the ~900mbps I get on my line, if I'm stood in the same (not particularly large) room without anything between it and me

As soon as there's anything obstructing line-of-sight, it quickly halves and quarters the rate down to WiFi 5 speeds

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Still no full-duplex?

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    [–] 88 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    We expect to see Wi-Fi devices able to detect the distance to other devices that are nearby, not only the distance, but what is the direction to those devices, with the ability to become a sensor to detect distance, to detect the presence of people, to detect gestures," Cordeiro claimed.

    "Essentially what we are doing is that we're going to be able to make devices be context aware, aware of their surroundings, and that's going to enable and open up the ability for new applications to be developed," he added.

    Yay. Granular tracking. Exactly what we were asking for with a WIFI protocol.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    ($1 * country population) / (average price/kwh)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    then adjust the population to be population / avg household size of the country. can multiply that by the rate of households with internet too

    then you have to contend with all the non residential routers as well. could very well be 1 router per person or close

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Good. 7 is a pain in the ass to deploy and very fussy. I'm this close to killing my 6hrz shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm on 6, very stable and fast enough for me (like over half a gbit), is 7 just worse?

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