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Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 10 months ago (4 children)

See ya in 5 years when ISPs will start providing WiFi 7 enabled routers

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would you use your ISPs router? Mine is set to modem mode an do have my own router which is far better quality and also totally under my control security wise.

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because most of the time they don’t let you, or make it super difficult to set up

Additionally, most end users aren’t tech savvy and just use whatever was given by the ISP

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, we plugged ours into the other modem and it worked immediately

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Key words: "most of the time". There are exceptions to this obviously

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would you use your isps WiFi router?

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprisingly super happy with my current one. I got ATT fiber and was planning on swapping out their router and adding an access point but it's actually great and covered my entire house including the garage and back yard, and they don't charge a monthly fee for it.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And ATT will share your WiFi psk with the feds.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well if the feds are after you you're probably pretty fucked. I doubt using your own router is going to prevent them from getting what they want.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wrong attitude

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm saying a router isn't going to protect you. You need to do way more than that, and what's actually needed is way beyond what you can expect any normal person to do. If you're just telling people your router is compromised without listing the hundreds of other steps you need to do, you're giving them a false sense of security, and frankly, nobody cares about the vast majority of us.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Sometimes it comes with your condos homeowners fees, regardless of what you want.

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, no one's talking about wifi 7 because it's not even close to taking off yet.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Google fiber and any other ISP that offers 1gbit or greater speeds are already giving with 6 routers, and 7 is soon to follow. Wifi 7 is already planned for Google Fiber and I know others have it on the way. Basically any ISP offering >1gbit speeds is going to have a wifi 7 router soon.

https://fiber.google.com/blog/2023/10/gfiber-labs-announces-first-project-20.html