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Real world transfer speeds are ~40 MB/s with USB 2. Wifi 6 is about ~700 MB. I struggle to find real world use cases that would hit USB 2 limits and not have
by piyh 3y ago
Real world transfer speeds are ~40 MB/s with USB 2. Wifi 6 is about ~700 MB. I struggle to find real world use cases that would hit USB 2 limits and not have wifi as an alternative.
The really interesting parts of USB are display port alt mode and thunderbolt. While it's technically possible and probably valuable for millions of people for Apple to do their version of Dex, I don't ever see that happening.
- PennRobotics 3y agoAs you stated: monitor as second display, but who is actually doing this en masse?? Personally, I've only had to do this once: when my Xperia screen totally broke but I still needed to get data off.
- piyh 3y agoNot monitor as second display. Think plugging your iPhone into a docking station and having some windowed desktop environment come up.
- lloeki 3y agoWiFi 6 is in the 700Mb/s range, not MB/s. (In practice I get about 500Mb/s, so on par with USB 2.0, which is 480Mb/s)
- turquoisevar 3y agoWiFi 6 has a theoretical bandwidth of 9.6Gbps. I manage to almost saturate my 1Gbps fiber connection when doing a Speedtest close to my router, landing at about 870Mbps down/up, which seems fair with some of the overhead that comes with my specific router. If I use AirDrop to my Mac which is an ad-hoc connection on 5Ghz I consistently reach 1Gbps transfer speeds, sometimes a bit more.
- TheHappyOddish 3y agoIn my experience with close to 500GB of files - mostly smaller image files - transferred over lightning using ifuse, 2-4MB/s is closer on average.