> Compared with the adoption of hardwire ethernet standards - which have been seemingly stuck at 1/2.5/10GbE for a while now. Wired connections can do 400 Gb/s

> Compared with the adoption of hardwire ethernet standards - which have been seemingly stuck at 1/2.5/10GbE for a while now. Wired connections can do 400 Gb/s over a single pair of fibres at distances of 80km(+) (-ZR(+)): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit_Ethernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit_Ethernet 800 Gb/s is available using more fibre pairs; 1600 Gb/s / 1.6 Tb/s is estimated for 2026 (802.3dj). If you're talking about twisted pairs, then 40 Gb/s is available (802.3bq): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair So I'm not quite sure that you're talking about when you say "stuck". Lots of folks are clamouring for more bandwidth, and the optics folks and IEEE are giving them new options on a regular basis. > I know there are a ton more benefits of these newer standards, but setting those aside for now, are people really feeling limited by the speed of 4G LTE & WiFi 5? They feel limited by the limited number of channels in 5 GHz, especially in high-density areas (especially with neighbours, and not just their own APs), which is the primary problem that Wifi 6E (802.11ax) and 7 (be) are trying to solve: not enough non-overlapping channels. And the higher the speed of the connection, the quicker data can be transmitted so that one client can stop transmitting and free up the medium for another client.