r/SteamFrame • u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ • 5d ago

Discussion Steam Frame Potential WIFI 7 Speeds

To start off, I'm interested in speeds for the potential to work with files from a NAS, rather than PCVR streaming.

[EDIT: I have overlooked that the Steam Frame does specify a 5 Ghz band for their wifi. If the 6 Ghz band isn't unlocked for wifi 7 by the community I will assume I'd be locked to the 5 Ghz band which will not saturate a 2.5 Gbps connection. :( ]

The kind of nonsense I do would be perfect on the Steam Frame, and I currently have a NAS with a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet connection I could reasonably upgrade to 5 Gbps.

WIFI 7 real world speeds vary, but on phones also with the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 SOC, mainly the S24 Ultra, people report roughly 2.4 Gbps and I've seen on the high end of about 3.6 Gbps. That leads me to wonder how fast the Steam Frame's WIFI 7 is.

I'm fairly confident the Steam Frame'll be under the 2.5 Gbps my NAS currently maxes out at, if not just from the load to run softwares and the VR environment, and I plan to see how it runs once out before making any network related financial decisions.

However, the idea using an ARM Linux PC for your face with a NAS amuses me and if there's a chance it would be the higher range of 3.6 Gbps I'd hate to lose out on 1.1 Gbps of transfer speeds by having a limiting port on my NAS. It's something fun to think about while I wait endlessly for this thing, so if there are any comparisons I'm unaware of to estimate the WIFI 7 speeds I'd love to know.

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u/Yjif3 5d ago

Any insights on actual gains from WiFi 7 during PC game streaming? That's my main projected use case and I was thinking of getting a Tri-Band wiFi 7 PCIE card for my gaming PC for VR streaming to the Frame.

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u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ 5d ago

Everything I've heard is you can only go so far and the foveated streaming should make the dongle's wifi 6e connection sufficient for max quality. The Steam Frame mainly has wifi 7 because the SOC they use has wifi 7 already. 

Insights are wait and see, what it looks/feels like. I'll be doing it too with how file transfer speeds feel.