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WIFI 8
You all see wifi 8 is now a thing and other companies promoting it. I thought the orbi 970 was future proofing ? with this new wifi 8 it seems like we are soon to be getting new hardware again for wi...
Why would you say no such thing is being discuss if somebody is educating you it is? Please go on Asus website you will see it's basically there already. If you read what I wrote you would have notice we are not happy with the current wifi 7 and behaviors a matter a fact if we were happy none of us will be on this thread right now we are disgruntled customers speaking out over here, With that said Wifi 7 seem to not be ready yet either why we having so many issues so it shouldn't be surprising of them releasing wifi 8 shortly. they did it with 6e and 7. I have the latest techs testing with wifi 7 including the new Mac book pro and google pixel 10 pro, samsung s26 and none of them seems to be handling wifi 7 with the orbi.
Why would you say no such thing is being discuss if somebody is educating you it is? Please go on Asus website you will see it's basically there already.
If you search some more, you'll find that the standard (IEEE 802.11bn) is expected to be finalized in September 2028 - so still two years away. It is still a draft.
I didn't say that WiFi 8 wasn't being discussed - I just said that the standard isn't finished yet. So anything you see about WiFi 8 is pre-standard.
I did say there is no such thing as "future proofing" for WiFi. WiFi manufacturers are already looking ahead and discussing features for WiFi 9. This is all business-as-usual for WiFi. It's always being improved, with care taken to ensure backwards compatibility.
I always look here first to see what is happening as most anything WiFi for the home gets checked here:
https://www.wi-fi.org/wi-fi-macphyWiFi standards are driven by a combination of the WiFi Alliance and the IEEE.
www.wi-fi.org is the website for the WiFi Alliance - so it is great source.
we having so many issues so it shouldn't be surprising of them releasing wifi 8 shortly. they did it with 6e and 7.
Disagree here. These folks don't handle implementation issues that way. Instead, they would publish amendments/clarifications to WiFi 7 itself if that were needed.
WiFi 7 was not a bug-fix for WiFi 6e. What happened back then is that the FCC opened up 6 Ghz spectrum for WiFi use in early 2020. Manufacturers wanted to take immediate advantage of that spectrum, so WiFi 6e was fast-tracked and rolled out in January 2021.
WiFi 7 was launched in 2024, so three years after that. As I said above, it adds some other features - such as MLO and more efficient modulation. The main change to 6 ghz was adding 320 mhz channels to get more performance.
