News Next-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss...

[Admin]

Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) aims to improve wireless reliability by 25% in throughput, latency, and packet loss under difficult conditions.

Next-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss... : Read more

 

[BryanFRitt]

No mention of WiFi 7 becoming an officially published 2025-07-22?
https://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/802.11_Timelines.htm

 

[heffeque]

Nice!
I'm happy with WiFi 7 on MLO, so I have no doubt that WiFi 8 will be great for high noise environments.

 

[HideOut]

WiFi 7's real problem is there is no standard. It can be WiFi 7 and still not have 6GhZ. Its a joke. Until the standard is an actual standard they are just posting uupdates of wh at they can make if you pay enough.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Standardized in 2028, starts appearing in 2029, widespread in new devices in 2032, and widespread in the userbase in 2035 in time for Wi-Fi 9 no doubt.

 

[usertests]

WiFi 7's real problem is there is no standard. It can be WiFi 7 and still not have 6GhZ.

There are plenty of standards with optional bits, Bluetooth is far worse.

Congress was recently trying to legislate the 6 GHz band away from Wi-Fi, so there's that.

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi

Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

arstechnica.com

 

[LCT_]

This is stupid, latency is performance. Once you reach a certain level of bandwidth, it's the most important metric of performance.
This is why you don't game on wireless, latency and jitter. A gig connection with 150-200ms first hop latency is still a poor connection IMO. Fight me.

 

[M0rtis]

There are plenty of standards with optional bits, Bluetooth is far worse.

Congress was recently trying to legislate the 6 GHz band away from Wi-Fi, so there's that.

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi

Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

arstechnica.com

Yeah, 6Ghz Wifi is currently "under review" i.e. currently banned, in India because telecom operators lobbied against it saying that modem manufacturers need to bid for operations in the 6Ghz spectrum because its unfair for them to compete with.

 

[kretkris]

I don't care about all these geek's staff and descriptions . STILL LOOKING FOR A DECENT ROUTER , WITH RANGE OF 300 meters ( 900 feet ) .

 

[usertests]

I don't care about all these geek's staff and descriptions . STILL LOOKING FOR A DECENT ROUTER , WITH RANGE OF 300 meters ( 900 feet ) .

That's a niche. You probably need something like HaLow.

 

[bill001g]

I don't care about all these geek's staff and descriptions . STILL LOOKING FOR A DECENT ROUTER , WITH RANGE OF 300 meters ( 900 feet ) .

Does it really matter if you find a router that could go 900 feet. Your end device is half the connection. If it also can not go 900 feet then it all doesn't matter.

The main reason nothing goes that distance is because all wifi no matter what silly number they put on it is still limited by the transmit power allowed and that has not changed since the beginning of wifi. All they have been doing with the newer wifi is changing the way the encode the data into the radio signals. The distance the radio signals go has not changed. This is purely a function of output power and how much signal is absorbed by everything between including the air.

 

[DS426]

This is stupid, latency is performance. Once you reach a certain level of bandwidth, it's the most important metric of performance.
This is why you don't game on wireless, latency and jitter. A gig connection with 150-200ms first hop latency is still a poor connection IMO. Fight me.

My son games on wireless just fine. You don't competitively game on wireless. Wi-Fi 6 and 6E will get far lower than 150-200 ms, especially if gaming PC is in the same room as the Wi-Fi router.

More reliable Wi-Fi is always a win IMO. Wi-Fi 6 seemed to take a step backwards somehow... I don't remember so many devices dropping the connection and asking for the WPA2/3 PSK again after they just authenticated and were working for a few minutes. Seen the issue with different drivers, different Wi-Fi adapter makes and models, and differen't AP's. Didn't have this many issues with Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac).