Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6::There are a lot of ‘draft’ Wi-Fi 7 devices around, but ‘Wi-Fi 7 Certified’ devices will only come to market sometime next year.

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Do I have to have played Wi-Fi 1 though 6 in order to understand 7?

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I’m still on Wi-Fi 4.

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Wifi 6 has become pretty affordable but the high speed 6E is still super expensive.

Is 7 an innovation or just more antennas and processing power usage?

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Yeah, I’ll be waiting for some coverage to see how it actually is.

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“Wi-Fi 7 supports superior connectivity for emerging use cases with high levels of interactivity and immersion,”

How far can I be from the access point and how many walls can there be in between? WiFi at home is already pretty bad just two rooms over from the router.

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It’s really just the nature of the beast. For higher throughput you need higher frequency. Higher frequency means less pentatration

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At some point we’ll have 1TB/s but it will require the devices to be kissing each other.

(Or we just move to light - LiFi)

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Lifi is honestly probably the best direction

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Hue

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Early adoption might be expensive.

I’ll wait as I put in WiFi 6E last year. I get 500-800mbps. I positioned 3 units through out. My laptops support WiFi 6 and 6E. So…no reason to upgrade since they cannot hit the higher speeds without direct line or adapter.

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Even Wifi 6E devices are way too expensive still, especially considering how poor 6GHz range is without a mesh system. I just upgraded to a new router since my old one would bottleneck my internet connection on wired, not because I needed faster wifi speeds.

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