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KurtP
Tutor
Jun 07, 2024

Official WiFi 7 certification and AFC support for Orbi 970 ?

Recently a came across a video for a newly released Mesh WiFi system that claimed that the Netgear Orbi was not officially certified to the WiFi 7 standard because it lacked AFC (a bit of a stretch, ...
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raven_au
Virtuoso
Jun 08, 2024
CrimpOn wrote:

Oh, my.  The answer appears to be glaringly obvious. (i.e. "no") The WiFi Alliance certification search engine reveals zero Netgear products matching WiFi7.  (There appear to be only 28 certified products, from Dec 23, 2023 through June 6, 2024)  Since certification testing began less than six months ago, it is not surprising to see a small number of products so far.

 

Of six WiFi routers that TP-Link advertises as WiFi7, only one displays the official logo from the WiFi Alliance:

I'm not sure that's correct.

The WiFi 7 Certified logo is displayed on the TP-Link web site for the BE85, an excellent WiFi 7 mesh router.

 

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 08, 2024
raven_au wrote:

The WiFi 7 Certified logo is displayed on the TP-Link web site for the BE85, an excellent WiFi 7 mesh router.

Absolutely correct.  I did not open the page for "mesh routers" and the BE85 clearly shows the symbol.

Thanks for catching that.