Why can't I see 6ghz on my Orbi 970

Ya devices are mostly 5 and 6Ghz supporting these days. No IoT devices may ever see 5 or 6Ghz. Generally. There are some on 5Ghz like Web cams and NEST controllers. 

CrimpOn wrote:

Thanks, I missed that the 2.4G band is only 1024K encoding, rather than the 4K of WiFi7.  Probably one of the reasons that Netgear does not include the WiFi7 Certified logo in any of the material on the web site.

 

(not that I can imagine very many 2.4G devices ever supporting WiFi7 - 802.11be)

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Wrong my friend.

While most modern mobile devices supporting WiFi 7 -and- 2.4 GHz except of a few cost-down models by various vendors most can use all available bands for seamless roaming -and- (of course) most, are supporting 4k encoding. The difference between the bands is the bandwidth available. On the 2.4 GHz band it's at least 20 MHz, where not so dense locations allow 40 MHz; on 5 GHz and 6 GHz this can be up to 320 MHz.

The reason for not sending products to the so called "certification" is typically cost, barley technical capabilities. But I'm not Netgear ... 

I was thinking more along the line of: All these inexpensive IoT gizmos support only 2.4G because:

• Their networking requirements are almost nothing.  e.g. "Turn on"  "Turn off"  "lower volume" etc.
• The greater range of 2.4G WiFi is more important than any potential speed improvement from 5G.
• Saving even pennies on manufacturing cost results in being more price competitive.

Are those companies likely to include WiFi7 capabilities in these gizmos?

Someone buying a laptop with an Intel WiFi7 module will get the capability to do WiFi7 on 2.4G when too far from the access point to get a good 5G (or 6G) connection. Alas, their Netgear WiFi7 system will not support those WiFi7 protocols on the 2.4G band.