It's nice to have the fastest Wi-Fi possible even if your upstream internet is slower. Sometimes you want to transfer files locally between devices, or run backups etc. Faster Wi-Fi here can make a huge difference to those tasks.
replyI have found that higher tier WiFi aids local game streaming significantly, but most of that benefit seems to be the 6Ghz band that you get with WiFi 6E.
replyYeah. I ran ethernet from my router specifically to improve games streaming (GeForce NOW). It was a huge improvement over standard 5 Ghz WiFi.
replyOh yeah, to be clear, my host PC is always wired.
replyYou can still make use of more. Local video streaming from your PC to tv, file transfers between nearby devices etc.
replyModern wifi is fast enough that using cables is often not required.
You used the wrong units there. Should be Mbps and Gbps.
replyI did not use the wrong units, I converted them. The speeds available in my area currently max out at 1.2Gbps which is 150MBps.
replyWhen talking about network bandwidth, it is custom to measure in bit-per-second therefore the "bps" notation. If you convert to bytes, it is highly recommended to use "b/s" notation instead, i.e 150MB/s, to avoid confusion.
replyThanks, I'll make sure to use B/s in the future.
replyBut IIRC the de facto unit for network transmission speeds are bits - not bytes - pr second, and when it’s more the rule than the exception than people write ‘B’ in stead of ‘b’ then the confusion gets even higher..
replyI would expect this crowd here to not make these mistakes as ofte. :-)
B is defacto for storage…
Then we calculate the Bytes to see how fast we can download a file.
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replyThe widely-accepted convention is to use bits when discussing line speeds (as the article does).
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