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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.
Agree especially being in the minority with a Google Pixel 10 Pro. Why would I want to consider WiFi 8 when WiFi 7 is still having issues and I suspect has yet to implement all the promises. It is all a rolling baseline. But if you believe in marketing hype - press. Since I don't live on the Internet, I would be happy with a stable 2G system or as Jimmy Buffett would say, " I don't want a 12 lb. Nestle's crunch for 25 dollars, I want my Junior Mints!"
Agree especially being in the minority with a Google Pixel 10 Pro. Why would I want to consider WiFi 8 when WiFi 7 is still having issues and I suspect has yet to implement all the promises.
All Google Pixel 8/9/10 [XL, Pro or not] share the very similar Wi-Fi tech. On Wi-Fi 7 maxing out on 160 MHz bandwidth, with a max PHY rate of 2401 Mbps on 802.11ax (resp. 1733 Mbps on 802.11ac). This is done to keep the energy consumption low. Many product reviewers or tech geeks don't appreciate Google is not running ahead, and does remain very conservative.
There is still a lot of wild nonsense written in the Internet since these phones are out, like users claiming lack of MLO.
In fact, like virtually all Wi-Fi 7 clients, it can do NSTR Mode (Nonsimultaneous Transmit and Receive Operation) only. NSTR Mode refers to non-simultaneous transceiver mode or synchronous mode. That is, simultaneous receiving and sending operations are not allowed. At the a time, all links can only receive or all links can send data on one a single band only.
In my observations, the Pixel 10 Pro and the Pixel 8 Pro are now (as Wi-Fi 7 client) - changing channels without involving roaming - as well as the Pixel 6 (a Wi-Fi 6 client, all enrolled to the Android Beta program), currently operating Android 17 QPR1 Beta1, are all operating amazingly reliable on our Netgear WBE7xx APs, as of writing on V12.8.0.7, since availability (about one week). Earlier Android 17 Betas required the [Fix connectivity] (Settings ->WiFi or Internet, top right icon) every now and then to regain Wi-Fi access.
STR Mode (Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Operation) on the other hand, refers to simultaneous transceiver mode or asynchronous mode. That is, two or more links work completely independently, and they don’t interfere with each other. This is a mode wireless infrastructure like Mesh systems can use on the wireless backhaul. Netgear Insight indicated this mode earlier as "active" MLO.
