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?

  • Yahiroz@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    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.