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ljg1000
Apr 25, 2023Tutor
RS700- and Wifi 7 Certification
The WiFi alliance has not certified Wifi 7 products yet. Yet the RS700 (which at the moment have on pre-order), as well as similar products from TP-Link and Asus are on or will be on preorder. Will t...
Killhippie
May 26, 2023Prodigy
I wouild not buy it, firstly its way to early and not giving full wifi 7 speeds, I imagine it will be a very earlly draft model, like wifi 6 routers, I mean the RAX120 never got full features, the RAXE500 seems to not be certified Negear never said if it had BSS or TWT for instance, and there has been no firmware updates for almost 6 months now on that high end router.
Buying a Wi-Fi 7 so early is going to be a world of pain as it will be buggy, may run to hot in that form factor like the Ampli Alien Wi-Fi 6 router did as its hard to vent heat out of a cylinder, also I don't think its coverage will be that great with I imagine its internal antenna will just be stamped ones, unlike the winged devices with external antenna or the antenna on say the R7800 (still Netgear's best router with Voxel firmware) To many if's and buts and why buy something when there are no clients anyway, also its obscenely expensive.
I beta tested the old RAX120 and the beta model which I still have was bigger than the release model, that router had great coverage, better than the RAXE500 on 5Ghz but higher latency but stayed at draft 3. Netgear to date have never released a router that went from draft to fully fledged wave one or two as so many things can change and you cannot guarantee the silicon will be capable of those updates, and since Wi-Fi 6E is only just appearing I think 2025 is more likely when main stream Wi-Fi 7 gear will be in the wild.
I mean many devices are still Wi-Fi 5 even now, manufacturers wont hedge there bets and update Wi-Fi specs unless it means they know it will them money and devices are set at least a year ahead for development I would imagine at least. Early days for Wi-Fi 7 which is not needed yet, you could argue that Wi-Fi 6E isn't either. I would not risk buying a router that needs hardware updates to reach full throughput, its well under so called Wi-Fi 7 supposed top speeds. I imagine 30-40Gbps will be the target in reality, I don't think the supposed 46Gbps will be the norm. I'd stay well clear for the time being, but that's just my view or course, and I am a little cynical these days.
- ljg1000May 26, 2023Tutor
Actually- I lost patience on RS700 ship dates and went with the TP-Link BE800 Wifi 7 tribune router. It's great- offering top speeds, great range and good wifi 6E performance. I can't test on Wifi 7 yet- but at this point I am confident the hardware will fully support the standard and that firmware updates will bring it to the full standard. These routers are great multi gig routers.
- ljg1000May 26, 2023Tutor
Also, I should add the BE800/BE900 doesn't yet have Wifi 7 back haul support and I believe the RS700 will. For those that need mesh solutions- the RS700 may be worth the wait- though the TP Link BE85 is out now- and I believe it does have Wifi 7 back haul support.
- microchip8May 26, 2023MasterGood luck on the updates. TP-Link is basically abandonware after they push a few updates.