You know - and this is a radical idea that nobody working on the wifi standard has contemplated yet - we could, like, improve more than just one thing per iteration, perhaps. Last time I checked, EA wasn't at the helm of this operations, we don't need yearly releases. How about you go away and come back in like 5 years with an actual reason to upgrade my shit. Thanks.
Tbf the only reasons to read an article these days is to either shit on how bad the headline is, note how little meaningful information it has, and/or post a tl;Dr.
Sadly a lot of people won't be able to take advantage of it, even in New houses.
I've been telling people to prewire access points and other locations with fibre and copper for the past year or so, and only a few installers have been taking it seriously.
If you're going to run copper, you'll probably want to run 4 of them.
You still want to run some copper regardless (at least 1 or 2), but I'd also recommend fibre (om3/4/5). OM3 can achieve 100gbps fairly easily, and om4 is even faster
Om5 honestly is probably more than future proof (is orders of magnitude faster). If you run preterminated, it can save a lot of money on the install too.
The renewed focus on reliability is motivated by emerging applications. Imagine a wireless factory robot in a situation where a worker suddenly steps in front of it and the robot needs to make an immediate decision.
No!
You should never use wireless link as part of a decision making system for a robot. It must be done localy with a dedicated real time system.
If you can not do it then pay a human to do the work.