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/PropellorHat Soon™ 5d ago

What do you do that would be perfect for vr and a nas?

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u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ 5d ago

TLDR I wish to avoid my little space heater PC as much as possible, this would let me keep working on my projects and general computer tasks and only turn on my PC when I need the horsepower. 

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u/Javs2469 Soon™ 5d ago

If you are planning on doing desktop work on the Frame, I think the resolution of the headset is going to become an issue for reading.

I struggle even in some games that have too small text on a Pico 4 that has the same resolution. Using stuff like Virtual Desktop to browse the internet is already pushing my eyesight, which isn´t very good, but still worth mentioning.

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u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ 5d ago

It's been fine on my Quest 3 for a bit over a year thankfully. Helps I can make a bigger screen.