As many small partners gradually update their devices, Wi-Fi 6 has gradually become the mainstream wireless standard in the home, so updating the router has become a recent demand. But just when everyone is choosing a Wi-Fi 6 route, Wi-Fi 7 has released the news, and it may appear in the market after two years, so do you still want to go to Wi-Fi 6? Whether Wi-Fi 7 immediately fell behind as soon as it came out, it really made people hesitate.
Let's start with the conclusion, really don't worry. First look at the popularity of Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7 has definitely been mainstream for a long time after its introduction. Secondly, the current Wi-Fi 7 should be IEEE 802.11be EHT (Extremely High Throughput, extremely high throughput) standard, as can be seen from the name, or the current 802.11 series of technology, function inheritance, device compatibility is no problem.
Then look at the main features, which include the 6GHz frequency band, the maximum 320MHz channel bandwidth, 4096-QAM modulation technology, Multi-RU mechanism, Multi-Link multilink mechanism, 16x16 MU-MIMO function, etc. Do you think it's familiar? Yes, in fact, most of the middle is an improved version of the Wi-Fi 6E standard function, such as the 6GHz band is the same as Wi-Fi 6E.
And one of the characteristics of the Wi-Fi standard is that various technologies are backward compatible, such as 4096-QAM can be compatible with Wi-Fi 6/6E's 1024-QAM. Therefore, there is no problem at all in using Wi-Fi 7 devices in Wi-Fi 6E networks, of course, the reverse can be reversed, and it may even be possible that Wi-Fi 6 devices are more comfortable in Wi-Fi 7 networks.
Finally, Wi-Fi 7 has a hidden feature that is likely to protect everyone's investment, that is, it improves the management of AP (transmitter), somewhat similar to the efficient multi-AP management technology MESH used by Wi-Fi 6 routers, which is much better than the previous bridging mode. To know that MESH is not in the Wi-Fi 6 standard, developed by the manufacturer itself, Wi-Fi 7 is a bit of a positive meaning, then after the future upgrade, Wi-Fi 6 routing can be an efficient extension of the AP, continue to play the residual heat.