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Technically, it does provide better connection speeds by enabling the router to avoid channel hopping, so it can talk to multiple devices (or the same devices if it has multiple antennae) at the same time. This is part of the recent wifi6 and wifi7 standards so more and more devices will start to gain speeds using this technique

Realistically computers have at best 2 antennae and this is largely marketing wank.

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22 points

Lookup “phased array” and “beam forming”

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Sure, but this isn’t that. That requires actual work put in developing and simulating the product, these are just multiple antennae for multiple channels.

Source: trust me bro I work in semiconductors at a firm that creates RF chips

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You mean to say there are tiny little humans working inside all the chips in my devices??

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No one should trust you if you don’t know that since .ac we have had beam forming and it got better in .ax

This router pictured is a ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Pro that has .ax

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I mean, beam forming is a pretty common feature of these routers.

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Though if you have multiple devices all trying to connect to wifi, like even a phone for example, then a computer having two antenna that it can actually use 100% of the time still sounds valuable to me.

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