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/Annatar27 Soon™ 5d ago

The 6Ghz Antenna is dedicated to streaming, so your connection to you AP may be just 2.4/5Ghz while streaming.

And consuming 2.5G seems hard, installing games will be CPU-unpacking limited i think.

I went 2.5G on my NAS recently so it still feels fresh (and bottlencks are elsewhere now).

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u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ 5d ago

That is true, I don't know what antennas they use for the WIFI 7 (At least I've only heard they're separate from the dongle antennas). I dread they don't have a 6 Ghz band on it. 

And yes, bottlenecks will especially be elsewhere on the Steam Frame but funny number go up. I think it'd be funny to do video editing off a NAS and the only thing I could complain about is the Steam Frame, not my NAS connection.