(04-25-2020, 06:04 AM)evilbunny Wrote:(04-25-2020, 05:56 AM)Luke Wrote: Sability is one thing tho, but the other is that some people simply wan't 500+Mbit/s WiFi speeds
wifi 5 (802.11ac) already does 800+ Mbit
802.11ac gives 867 Mbit/s per stream only if it supports 160-MHz channel bandwidths. Most extant gear doesn't; the Pinebook Pro's chip only gives 80-MHz channels at most (and offers no MIMO magic, so you only get one stream), meaning the maximum link speed is 433 Mbit/s under ideal conditions (and well-working firmware, which appears to be a pain point at present, but I digress.)
802.11ax gives a few key improvements, namely client-end MIMO and mandatory 160-MHz channel support. With the affordable Intel AX200 card, you get 2x2 MIMO and 160-MHz channels, so between that and the new high-order modulation scheme (1024-QAM), the ideal-case usable link speed could reach 2402 Mbit/s - 1201 Mbit/s per stream. I have no idea how difficult it is to make this happen in practice, but the PCIe bus on the Pinebook Pro side should be able to handle it easily (it should fit inside the link capacity of even a single lane).