Netgear's first wifi 7 router purports to be capable of up to 19Gb/s. Yeah, real world will see less, but it's likely it'll be able to make use of a 5Gbit inter

Netgear's first wifi 7 router purports to be capable of up to 19Gb/s. Yeah, real world will see less, but it's likely it'll be able to make use of a 5Gbit internet connection, especially sharing that connectivity across a home or business with existing MU-MIMO & OFDMA, and new Multi-Link Operations (MLO). It does definitely occur to me that the future of home connectivity might not be based on wires. (In fact it seems likely: eventually optical will eat the data-center market almost whole as it's power efficiency/bit scales & as signal integrity challenges ges bloom. And then it will probably down-market itself.) The wifi available today is much faster than most home networks, and is often easier to deploy. The case for why we want faster speeds is less clear. First, I take issue with fixating on internet service speeds. I don't intend to upgrade past the affordable 300Mbit fiber I have now, for cost reasons. But I love faster home networks! For a while I was running 40Gb infiniband! Personally I really enjoy being able to do really fast backups, or having sizable RAW photos that load at near-local speeds. If connectivity is good enough, we can consider downscaling the storage on individual systems & relying more on network. I also really dig game-streaming (via moonlight+sunshine) around the home; more throughout translates to lower latency & lets me raise settings. You rated a 4k stream as 25Mbps, but for a 144Hz 36-bit color game, I definitely want much much much more than that. For watching even a 24fps movie, I still want much more than that (although that seems to be what many steaming services offer).