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Why is Wi-Fi (in general) so slow?

The theoretical maximum transfer speed of Wi-Fi is about 7 Gbps or 900 MB/s. Apparently NVMe for example can do up to 16 GB/s. That's orders of magnitude faster than Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi literally uses light as its medium though, which is pretty fast... Why…
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