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Re:Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard by altairprime on Sunday October 06, 2024 @06:28PM (#41760888)
WiFi 7 finally extends wi-fi clients to be capable of bonding multiple radios together into a coherent link. This is critical to being able to bond in longer-range, lower-bandwidth channels in the future, and I'm certain they are considering how they can bring all of the 802.11 wireless specifications under one umbrella.

However, this will also expose issues with encapsulation of "the connection", which can now vary exponentially in capacity. Operating systems and applications are coded to be 'carrier frequency agnostic', without any capability for a given connection to switch from "low data mode" (avoid unnecessary transmissions) to "high data mode" (do whatever you like), much less to "extremely low data mode" (i.e. push notifications and foreground app only) or to "extremely high data mode" (i.e. 4k / 240fps over 60GHz); all on a single dynamically-adjusting connection.

Cellular fakes this today by saying "5G high data permitted?" but not being able to downgrade OS and app behaviors gracefully when the 5G connection is hella weak or overloaded, i.e. not fetching mail or not autoplaying movies or etc.

Re:Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday October 06, 2024 @09:24PM (#41761887)
Windows exposes connection-speed data to applications, and don’t forget the “metered connection” setting - which plenty (albeit probably not most) applications support - which goes a long way to solve the problem you’re describing.