News Wi-Fi 7 standard is finalized — Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying Wi-Fi 7 routers and other devices

[Admin]

Wi-Fi Alliance finalizes and introduces Wi-Fi Certified 7 Certification for PC and mobile devices, routers, access points, mesh networks, IoT & any electronic systems that will comply and need to benefit from this new standard.

Wi-Fi 7 standard is finalized — Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying Wi-Fi 7 routers and other devices : Read more

 

[DavidLejdar]

Nice.

It does go far beyond what many end-users can currently make use of at home. Like, with an internet connection of 100 Mbps, a Wi-Fi 4 router can still be good enough, in terms of simple data transfer.

But many may make use of Wi-Fi 7 soon enough, such as also in terms of public internet access points, or for mentioned business use (such as in a conference room, where it will need only one Wi-Fi 7 router to connect many a laptop to the internet or internal server), and for some potential personal use (e.g. streaming graphics from PC to VR headset - that is in terms of better latency, as a bit rate of some 40+ Gbps is not something current GPUs would churn out meaningfully, in regard to resolution and frame rate).

 

[WiFiman430years]

I have been running a TP-Link BE19000 WiFi 7 router for the last 9 months and it has been running great. People forget that many improvement have happened to WiFi in the last 10 years and it is not just about speed. As more close neighbors get more devices and more WiFi networks along with your devices the need for better WiFi has also grown. Having Access to 6ghz and new protocols help you keep ahead of your neighbors with better WiFI. I have a brand new Google Pixel 8 Pro phone running in WiFi 7 and it gives me full 900mbps Internet. The range is fantastic and it covers my complete 1600 ranch home without a problem. I love how I can still use DFS on the 5ghz radios so I do not overlap my neighbors WiFi networks as I move devices to WiFi 7 support. I think this is the best WiFi router I have owned a it just got certified by the WiFi alliance for WiFi 7.

 

[thestryker]

I've been waiting for the certification to land in hopes that some cheaper devices will come this year with it. I don't need the huge throughput, but the improved multi device technologies are what I'm looking for. Crossing fingers that there will be something triple band that drops below $300 this year.