The disappointing reality that no consumer Wi-Fi 7 routers feature the full feature set

WiFi7 is half baked and its more desirable features are usually implemented poorly. It needs more time to mature, be adopted, and be better implemented.
 
WiFi6 is currently good enough for me
Set it up well with good placement of APs and channel selection and you're golden

I get good latency and a minimum of 400mbps no matter where I am in the house. (800+ in the same room as an AP)
 
aaronyuri said:
WiFi7 is half baked and its more desirable features are usually implemented poorly. It needs more time to mature, be adopted, and be better implemented.
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And unfortunately the average consumer not realise and believe the marketing and high price is worth it
 
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IIRC Wifi7 spec has been a bit half-arsed since it's creation, with a lot of "optional" features, meaning that a device could technically be wifi7, but has very little benefit from wifi6.

I've only upgraded to wifi6 at home this year, I'd been running wifi5 for ages, and tbh I probably still would be if I didn't get a good price on some wifi6 WAPs. If I want speed/reliability in my connection, the device gets hardwired, wifi is just a unfortunate neccessity for the few devices that need to be mobile, and there's no massive data requirements on those.
 
It was much the same with Wifi 6, not every device supports all the features, this is nothing new.
 
New tech is always like this. 6 was the same, it took a short while to establish, the biggest feature for me was OFDMA. It's only time before the gen2 WiFi7 AP's come along and really nail MLO. That and when "most" consumer hardware starts shipping with WiFi7 as that's the biggest driver.
 
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Won't matter anyway as people will still be unnecessarily using separate ssids for each frequency band as it it's 2009
</Sarcasm>
 
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