Most APs aimed at domestic situations are still on 1Gbps, but WiFi 6-series (not 6E/7) APs aimed at business/enterprise environments have had 2x5Gbps uplinks for years now - since September 2018, i.e. Aruba AP-555’s [1]. I happen to use these at home and they’re great with 100’s of concurrently connected clients (across 5+ APs and 15+ radios, usually ~70 clients per radio max) vs. Ubiquiti/Eero which always had lots of issues. Obviously though, YMMV!
Definitely agree that it’s generally not needed (>1Gbps) but game updates these days run 100GiB+ in some cases (particularly for AAA titles) and it’s nice to have a little more speed sometimes. Individual clients are usually 80MHz 2x2 so best case will get ~1.2Gbps [2], but the radio can handle a couple clients doing things at once (MU-MIMO).
For external connectivity, Comcast is now selling 1.2Gbps services in many US markets (they also overprovision the profile so speedtest.net will often see 1.4Gbps), and consequently cable modems have had 2.5GE ports for a couple years now. When combined with APs that have >1Gbps uplinks this can actually get used! Some markers can now get Comcast with 2000/200 (down/up) [3], which is a huge improvement over 1200/35 — the previous maximum.
So, it’s nice to have APs with more uplink, and it’s nice to have >1Gbps Comcast, but I’d definitely not call it mainstream yet.
[1] https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP550Series.pdf
[2] https://mcsindex.com/
[3] https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-increas...
Definitely agree that it’s generally not needed (>1Gbps) but game updates these days run 100GiB+ in some cases (particularly for AAA titles) and it’s nice to have a little more speed sometimes. Individual clients are usually 80MHz 2x2 so best case will get ~1.2Gbps [2], but the radio can handle a couple clients doing things at once (MU-MIMO).
For external connectivity, Comcast is now selling 1.2Gbps services in many US markets (they also overprovision the profile so speedtest.net will often see 1.4Gbps), and consequently cable modems have had 2.5GE ports for a couple years now. When combined with APs that have >1Gbps uplinks this can actually get used! Some markers can now get Comcast with 2000/200 (down/up) [3], which is a huge improvement over 1200/35 — the previous maximum.
So, it’s nice to have APs with more uplink, and it’s nice to have >1Gbps Comcast, but I’d definitely not call it mainstream yet.
[1] https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP550Series.pdf
[2] https://mcsindex.com/
[3] https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-increas...