Re: About WiFi7

"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:mikecjlu0negpkia8e5i18u946l0n99qar@4ax.com...

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:50:56 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
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About WiFi7
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications/wireless/wifi/article/55132520/skyworks-solutions-what-is-wi-fi-7-and-why-does-it-matter
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Anybody using this?
https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/asus-rt-be58u-extendable-router-wifi-7-dual-band-aimesh-2-5g-poort/9300000183145514/

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Some day we won't have cell towers or wifi or cable modems or fiber to
the premises, just one universal wireless system for everything.

Where will the other end of the wireless link to/from your device be?

Data
transport is a mess now.
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I just opened a new engineering office. I had to get an internet
provider (we went with a MonkeyBrains dish on the roof)

Not all of us live in places where it never snows.
Heavy rain can cause issues.

, a 10-port PoE
switch, a mild nightmare of local interconnect and CAT5 wiring

I'd have used CAT6

to
various offices, a wifi router,

I'd have used a business class firewall.
https://www.pfsense.org/ works well for me.
I can go anywhere and use my own network as if I was there.

and all sorts of plywood and shelves.
Envision treks to Loews.
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Barbaric.