It wasn’t that long ago that we saw a major update to WiFi standards with the release of WiFi 6 in 2019 and WiFi 6E in 2020. But we’re on the verge of the next generation of WiFi with the official launch of the new WiFi 7 standard in November 2022. There has already been a soft release of WiFi 7 routers in China, and we’ll start seeing the new routers in the market here sometime this year.
The performance of WiFi 7 is much improved over its predecessor:
- A WiFi 7 router will be able to connect to more simultaneous devices, which will be useful in hotels and other public settings.
- WiFi 7 has vastly improved theoretical speeds. WiFi 6 could support a speed as fast as 9.6 Gbps. WiFi 7 will allow for a connection as fast as 36 Gbps.
- The new standard will be better able to maintain a low-latency connection to devices.
- WiFi 7 will allow for WPA4 security, but this…
