Next-Gen Wi-Fi To Trade Ludicrous Speed For The Boring Art Of Actually Working
The Register, Thursday, January 2nd, 2025
Eighth generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability
Wi-Fi 8 is coming, but it looks set to focus on greater reliability rather than on pushing the bandwidth ever higher, as the most recent updates to the venerable wireless local network technology have done.
It feels like we have had multiple wireless LAN updates in recent years, with Wi-Fi 6 only being officially adopted in 2021, followed swiftly by Wi-Fi 6E and then Wi-Fi 7. The latter has yet to be ratified, and support for it was only added to Windows 11 this year.
Wi-Fi 7 has not yet been broadly adopted, especially as anyone wanting to take advantage of the higher speed and extra frequency bands on offer will have to upgrade both their devices and access points to hardware that supports the new standard.