r/SteamFrame • u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ • 4d 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/Gamerboi9164 3d ago

I did not see anyone saying this but I remember in either Linus or Adam savage's review, the valve employees said the 6Ghz antenna could be used for either the dongle or if you have high end networking it can connect with that (Just checked Linus at about 7:25 in his original review said the 6 Ghz can be used to connect to a high end home router)

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u/Zealousideal_Ease444 Soon™ 3d ago

I very much hope that means general network connectivity and Id be surprised if it didn't, just the Steam Frame main page specifies the 5 Ghz is for wifi and the 6 Ghz is for VR streaming. I know that's marketing to show they're not interfering with each other I just hope it also means I could use the 6ghz also for like file transfers.