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> 6GHz barely makes it through a concrete wall, so you're only receiving your own AP, so you have the whole bandwith mostly to yourself. I agree with this and
by cbg0 11mo ago
> 6GHz barely makes it through a concrete wall, so you're only receiving your own AP, so you have the whole bandwith mostly to yourself.
I agree with this and the fact that 6GHz should still be available for wifi, but this whole bandwidth frenzy over wifi has always seemed like a meme for anyone except power users. A 4K netflix stream caps out around 15mbps, so >95% of typical home users will be just fine using 2.4/5GHz inside their own homes.
- crote 11mo agoYou've got to take into account that those bandwidth figures exist on paper only - nobody is getting 5Gbps out of their wifi. In practice it is all about degraded performance. If you're sitting in another room than the AP, close to your neighbour, do you want to be left with 50Mbps remaining out of the original 5000Mbps, or 2Mbps remaining out of the original 200Mpbs?
- maxsilver 11mo ago> A 4K netflix stream caps out around 15mbps Yeah, but that's just because Netflix streams are ridiculiously over compressed -- they use extremely low quality encodes. It's technically a "4K" stream, sure, but at a bitrate only realistically capable of 1080p. An actual 4K stream (one capable of expected resolution at 4K) is around 30 to 40mbps.
- 0x457 11mo agoBack in the day, it was better to upscale netflix's 720p to 1080p than to stream 1080p.
- kingstnap 11mo agoThis ~10 to 20 Mbps is enough nonsense is like claiming that 24 fps is enough to play games. I mean sure, its usable, but its not good. You can notice the differences in buffering / scrubbing speed well into the 100+ mbps range. Plus being able to download and upload files quickly. Particularly from something like a home NAS, is important. 15 mbps is like using a shitty USB 2 stick for everything!
- matt-p 11mo agoBut your home NAS should be on ethernet? Who would buy a NAS and then not wire it in?? The point here is that only devices like a TV, mobile, tablet or laptop should be on WiFi and it's pretty hard to notice the difference between say 50Mbps and 500Mbps on any of those except maybe if you are moving files around on your laptop.
- vntok 11mo ago> But your home NAS should be on ethernet? Who would buy a NAS and then not wire it in?? Your smartphone is not talking to your NAS over Ethernet.
- matt-p 11mo agoI think you'll find downloading files to your phone from a NAS is like 0.01% type behaviour.
- supertrope 11mo agoiCloud backups are something normal people do each time they plug in their phone.
- matt-p 11mo ago50Mb is more than fine for iphone backups.
- kalleboo 11mo agoFamily of 4 comes home after a long day out, all plug in their phones at the same time to charge and drop down in the sofa to vegetate in front of Netflix. Why is it buffering so bad?!? Traffic is bursty. Higher bandwidth connections make the whole internet more efficient - if you can race to idle then servers have fewer concurrent connections to keep track of, routers can more quickly clean up their NAT tables etc etc
- kergonath 11mo agoThe problem is not bandwidth. The problem is inconsistent performance and latency spikes caused by interferences.
- Gigachad 11mo agoThe average normie now is downloading 100GB Call of Duty updates over wifi. 5Ghz is ok but most of it is unusable due to DFS.