Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]

Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by mystified5016 on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:34PM (#42528348)

Because the ESP can only barely do WiFi. You can get a couple of Mbps under ideal conditions. It is not a general purpose WiFi adapter, it's a low power IoT chip.

A general purpose WiFi adapter can do gigabit sustained connections over PCI or some other high speed interface. Entirely different class of chip.

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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by emilfihlman on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:35PM (#42528609)

A couple?

It easily goes to tens of Mb/s.

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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by yonatan8070 on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:03AM (#42529402)

Which is still abysmal compared to what a modern Wi-Fi chipset can push, even in the real world. Even an old home-grade Wi-Fi 5 AP can push >400Mbps over the air in real-world conditions. And the Wi-Fi 6/6e/7 devices can go well above that.

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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by shakna on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:35AM (#42529766)

Anecdote only: I've never consistently managed 10mb/s without integrating some sort of cooling system. Not without frying the chip.

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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by leptons on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:00PM (#42535600)

Citation needed.

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