Recently, the Wi-Fi Alliance gave Wi-Fi 7, officially known as 802.11be, its blessing, and our homes and offices will soon see speeds of — believe it or not — almost 5.8 Gigabits per second (Gbps).
Actually, just between us, I don’t believe Intel when it states, “a typical Wi-Fi 7 laptop [will] have a potential maximum data rate of almost 5.8 Gbps.” I’ve benchmarked too many networks to buy the top-end numbers. However, I can believe that a Wi-Fi 7 hookup can hit real-world speeds of over half that number, say 4Gbps, and that’s more than fast enough for anyone not running a high-performance supercomputer cluster at home.
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So, how will Wi-Fi 7 leave Wi-Fi 6E, which I’ve seen running at up to 1.5Gbps, eating its dust? The answer is that Wi-Fi 7 manages that kind of speed thanks to multiple…
