I could buy a 6E Intel wifi card for next to nothing, yet it doesn't seem to be possible to buy a consumer router with SFP+ or SFP28 fiber and 6E, so I'm stuck as to how I am supposed to use these faster WIFI endpoints?
Communicating with a NAS on your home network for large file transfers is really the only use I can see. It's not like >gigabit consumer connections exist anywhere, though there is a bit of a chicken and egg situation there of course.
Init7.ch supports up to 25 gb/s, but finding the right combination of small devices like consumer routers and notebooks to achieve much more than 1 gb/s is difficult. I.e. with a desktop it's easy enough to use a 10 gigabit card, with a notebook you are often stuck with inbuilt gb Ethernet and maximizing the wifi instead.
I can upgrade to 1.5/1 gigabit from my provider, but I'm satisfied with 1/1 right now. From what I've heard the reason the upgrade isn't symmetrical is that the ONT that they provide is the bottleneck.
I've seen posts on here by Swiss people who are able to get 10/10 as well.
> Apple's long-rumored mixed-reality headset is also expected to feature Wi-Fi 6E. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that head-mounted display devices in 2022, 2023, and 2024 will offer Wi-Fi 6/6E, Wi-Fi 6E/7, and Wi-Fi 7, respectively, but it is unclear if this information was related to Apple's product roadmap specifically.
If the headset is not announced in September, I'm going to give up on believing these rumors.
ha, i think you might have a bit of a wait. apple has a tendency to sit on new products for a long time while they wait for the market to develop and while they work out UX, supply chain, and marketing issues. also, the cadence of product releases is yearly, so if there isn't an optimal slot this year, they'll push launch back a year just for that reason.
despite the rumors, i don't think we see the headset in the next 3 years, and we won't get an apple car in the next 7. there's no competitive nor wall street pressure for either of these rumored product developments (as in, there's no threat to apple if these aren't released sooner rather than later).
i will say the headset fits apple's future product roadmap better than the car, because apple wants to firmly own personal computing tech, which is increasingly miniaturizing and becoming more pervasive/integrated into our lives. the car is a nice extension, but not core to that vision. even apple home is more central to that vision than the car.
