Stop chasing Gigabit Wi-Fi: Here are the networking upgrades that actually matter

How fast do you need your Wi-Fi to be? If, like most people (and myself), you’re still on Wi-Fi 5, then your real world speeds are probably no more than 500Mbps under good conditions. If you have an internet connection faster than this, you might feel you’re wasting the bandwidth you’re paying for. Wi-Fi 6 can get you to a Gigabit and even beyond, and Wi-Fi 7, which can quadruple that, but is still expensive and won’t reach that potential on devices that aren’t Wi-Fi 7.