• BakedCatboy
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    2 months ago

    Huzzah! I’m mostly hyped for improved OFDMA and MLO. The article mentions that better congestion handling helps in enterprise and large deployments, but doesn’t mention that these features can also help a lot in other crowded situations like dense apartment buildings. You just gotta get your neighbors to upgrade to WiFi 6 or higher though.

    I’ve been on WiFi 7 since January and seen a 10-15% reduction in spectrum usage consumed by other APs interfering in our dense building. A good number of our neighbors are on WiFi 6 which might have something to do with them being mostly students who just went out to buy a new router for their apartment after leaving home. As far as I’ve seen none of my neighbors are on 6E but I don’t expect to ever see much 6GHz interference since it barely makes it through a single wall - which is fine for me because none of our rooms are more than 1 wall from the AP.