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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 82 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

We expect to see Wi-Fi devices able to detect the distance to other devices that are nearby, not only the distance, but what is the direction to those devices, with the ability to become a sensor to detect distance, to detect the presence of people, to detect gestures," Cordeiro claimed.

"Essentially what we are doing is that we're going to be able to make devices be context aware, aware of their surroundings, and that's going to enable and open up the ability for new applications to be developed," he added.

Yay. Granular tracking. Exactly what we were asking for with a WIFI protocol.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

cool, so now I have to turn off wifi when I leave the house.

oh wait, I already do that.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I haven't kept up with the newer wifi's, but isn't this just beaming foaming+

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Feature proposed by China and US, I'd say.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world -1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Russia's making wifi illegal instead...

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

They are waiting for Wi-Fi 8 :)

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Anybody know how it might effect power consumption? I know routers are dirt cheap to run, like $1 a month, but I'm sure it will have a measurable impact at the scale of a large nation.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

($1 * country population) / (average price/kwh)

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

There are a lot less than 1 router per person. I hope.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Counting offices/public spaces with several repeaters, and then people with some repeaters at home, it might be close though

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

then adjust the population to be population / avg household size of the country. can multiply that by the rate of households with internet too

then you have to contend with all the non residential routers as well. could very well be 1 router per person or close

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Good. 7 is a pain in the ass to deploy and very fussy. I'm this close to killing my 6hrz shit.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm on 6, very stable and fast enough for me (like over half a gbit), is 7 just worse?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

7s the exact same. 7 added the ability to combine 2.4 5 and 6ghz bands into one connection. But in my experience the speed difference vs just 6ghz is negligible. Instead of 2gig over WiFi you get closer to 2.4. Woo.