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Wi-Fi 8 is appearing at CES before most of us have switched to Wi-Fi 7
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I'm still on WiFi 5. I looked at WiFi 6 routers but then they mentioned WiFi 7 being on the horizon. If they keep doing this, it'll be long before I upgrade.
I did the same, WiFi 6 came out then they announced WiFi 6E was around the corner and when I looked into it, 6E was the one that really gave performance boost, its my understanding that WiFi 6 just helps with congestion from lots of devices, doesn't really give you much of a performance boost on single devices. I use openwrt though, so I've been waiting for a WiFi 6E capable openwrt supported router to come out.
Then there's also the part where your clients have to support it too, and I realized all my devices are old and don't support 6GHz anyway.
The one thing that will probably finally get me to upgrade is I'm debating about buying a Steam Frame, and I'll probably need faster WiFi for that. I'll probably have to go with a generic WiFi AP just for the Frame, until openwrt have a supported model.
If the faster wifi is for streaming from a computer, last I checked the Steam Frame is coming with a USB dongle to facilitate that so it doesn't have go over your network.
Nice, didn't know that, thanks!