Since I have not seen many people talking about it here. How much big of a deal is the improved Wifi module on the Steam Deck OLED compared to the LCD version? Was Wifi 5 too big of a problem in the first place?
WiFi 5 is not an issue for online play. WiFi 6 generically faster but you outside internet speed and the download service will always bottleneck you.
Someone may have a reason WiFi 6 is better for the deck, but I can’t think what it would be.
Wifi speeds always seemed fast enough for me, so maybe valve just wants to be ahead of the curve and avoid the wifi becoming obsolete when general speeds catch up
i dont have a wifi6 router, so ill have to wait and see what others think of it.
WiFi 5 is not an issue for online play. WiFi 6 generically faster but your outside internet speed and the download service will always be the bottleneck.
Someone may have a reason WiFi 6 is better for the deck, but I can’t think what it would be.
99.99% chance your internet speed isn’t fast enough for it to matter anyways tbh.
For Steam downloads, even though 6 is faster (and even faster with 6E thanks to 6GHz support), you’ll still be limited by the SD’s CPU as it needs to decompress the download, or the SD card’s write speed if you’re installing a game to that.
If anything I guess if you’re in an area where 5GHz is congested, and you have a 6E router then it’ll benefit you in online play with lower latency. But 5GHz itself is hardly congested due to lower penetration power.