News Gigabyte's Wi-Fi 7 PCIe card preps your desktop for a faster wireless future

[Admin]

Gigabyte has unveiled a new Wi-Fi 7 card with a maximum bandwidth potential of up to 5.8Gb/s. The card is very compact, making it the wireless upgrade for new, big, old, or small systems.

Gigabyte's Wi-Fi 7 PCIe card preps your desktop for a faster wireless future : Read more

 

[plateLunch]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

 

[usertests]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

Devices on the local network can communicate faster than Internet speeds.

 

[emike09]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

Honestly, no clue, at least for home users, which this will eventually trickle down to. A rare home user might have a mighty home network with NVMe NAS RAID arrays, 10 kids and 10 adults, all trying to pull from some crazy Plex server or data-store. IDK, trying to get creative. I've got 1Gb Google Fiber, and share my network with my roommates, 6 of us total, and even though I'm the heavy user of LAN/WAN traffic, there is literally nothing I could do to come close to saturating 5800Mbps.

Some business video editing studios could theoretically need a router with 5.8Gbps, but 99.9% of the time, they're going to be hardwired via 10Gb-25Gb ethernet. Anybody that needs 10G+ speeds are going to be hardwired, via copper or fiber.

Wifi 7 is a joke. We don't need more speed. We need more reliable signal, better noise reduction, further throw. "Maybe" in 10 years I'll need the speed that Wifi 7 can provide, but as it stands now, it's nothing but a marketing gimmick. Wifi 6e is pretty cool since you can get off of 2.4 and 5ghz congestion and onto 6ghz. But 6ghz is terrible for long-range signal attenuation compared to 2.4. The moment I step outside my home, 20 feet from my router, the 6ghz network dies as it can't pass through my walls.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

The funny thing is that if "ultra high end" motherboards continue the trend, like the insanely overpriced MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE MAX, you may not have a PCIe slot to use on a wireless card (or anything else for that matter) without sacrificing a M.2 slot.

 

[pixelpusher220]

The moment I step outside my home, 20 feet from my router, the 6ghz network dies as it can't pass through my walls.

Tell me you live in a warehouse with no walls w/o telling me /s haha

Seriously though, these speeds are great...assuming you have an access point *very* nearby. Requiring 2/3x devices of a mesh system to get around the walls doesn't seem really viable.

 

[pixelpusher220]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

Another thing is backhaul. Since Wifi 7 will have even more distance restrictions, you'll need more than a couple 'hops' across your network to get to the router/switch. Since you def won't get more than 2 of these radios in the first devices, you start halving your speed pretty fast no?

 

[Makaveli]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

lol slow down that is theoretical speed I doubt it will hit that real world like current wifi. Secondly you are thinking about your WAN connection and this would be for your internal LAN.

 

[newtechldtech]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

Networking is not only for internet access, you connect devices and PCs and mobiles together . also 5800Mbps is the total bandwidth ,means each user can have more bandwidth when connecting at the same time.

 

[Ogotai]

The funny thing is that if "ultra high end" motherboards continue the trend, like the insanely overpriced MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE MAX, you may not have a PCIe slot to use on a wireless card (or anything else for that matter) without sacrificing a M.2 slot.

dont even need this board to run out of usable pcie slots... my x570 e gaming board, i have a video card, sound card and an add in sata card, ans thats it, no more lanes left to use, unless i want to drop my video card down to 8x, or maybe lose a sata port or 2...

desktop kind of needs more pce lanes to go around, especially if they add more m.2 slots on the board. i also have an X99 based comp im still using as it has the lanes, and pcie slots i need for whats in that comp. IF i could afford to grab a threadripper, that x99 based comp, would be replaced by now...

im in the process of updating half of my home network to 10g as well... but dont need wifi 7 yet..... 6(e) looks to be just fine for the wifi needs here still...

 

[Geef]

I think wifi 7 will be good for future VR headsets. Being able to use full speed connection between PC and headset without a cord or limitations.

 

[Amdlova]

Purchased an adpter AX211NGW 11.99us that thing is fast don't need more than that on wi-fi info from intel
"When using Wi-Fi 6 technology with 1024QAM and 160MHz channels, the Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX211 module can deliver nearly 3x higher peak data rates3 (up to 2.4Gbps) and up to 4x capacity improvement in dense or congested environments comparing to Wi-Fi 5."

 

[FoxtrotMichael-1]

5800Mbps?!?! What is someone supposed to do with that speed? My internet connection is only 400 Mbps. And one thing no one ever mentions..what is the throughput of your home router? The manufacturers always talk about their Wifi speed. But they never talk about how fast the router can move bits. I have a small business router and I had to pay a lot just to get 500 Mbps.

I’m always surprised to see comments like this. For those of us running Homelabs and ZFS arrays this is great news! All the computers in my house mount network file storage for various things and I stream my Plex content locally as well. This means if you run fast ZFS network storage you can access it at near-local speeds (in the case of flash SATA). A lot of people are already running 10gbe wired networks for this reason in the home and 25gbe is now relatively affordable with some Mikrotik devices.

 

[USAFRet]

A lot of people are already running 10gbe wired networks for this reason in the home and 25gbe is now relatively affordable with some Mikrotik devices.

Change that to:
"A tiny minority of people..."

I work in a building with 200-300 uber geeks. I could probably find 2 that are running a home network like that.