Hello everyone, I am a little Coldplay, today I have the honor to share with you a small article "From PHICOMM K2 to Asus Pyramid, does my WiFi5 wireless router have your same model", about several wireless routers I used from about seven years ago to 2 years ago, but limited by space, I did not show it completely, such as the following Huawei WS5100, I just tried it but didn't really use it, because this is a friend who didn't use it to throw it to me, when I got it, I found that it didn't have as good performance as the new router in my hand In other words, "I know the king when he is old", even if it is for nothing, he can only eat ashes.
Why do wireless routers depreciate fast?
The reason is very simple, over time, once the new technology fully occupies the high ground, no matter how expensive the old products will be unwanted, reduced to antique goods, so 3C digital FMCG products update and iterate quickly, and the depreciation rate is also high.
This rule especially applies to wireless routers - remember the release of the first WiFi6 router in 2020, the price is scary, and in 2021, major brands are vying to promote new WiFi6 products, and soon the price of WiFi6 routers and WiFi5 routers will be the same. At this time, will consumers endure new technologies and choose WiFi5 specifically? The answer is clearly no. In fact, many WiFi6 routers in 2022 have already been priced at the hundred yuan level, and they are all over the street.
In 2023, WiFi7 routers will also "blow up the group"
For example, the following one is the first WiFi7 router Nighthawk RS700 of Netgear, Broadcom's BCM6726/3 solution, tri-band + 19Gbps bandwidth, 1 10,000 Gigabit WAN + 1 10,000 Gigabit LAN + 4 Gigabit LAN ports + 1 USB3.0 interface, in addition to supporting WiFi7, it is also backward compatible with WiFi6, WiFi5 and WiFi4. Guess how high its pre-sale price is? The answer is: equivalent to nearly 4,900 yuan. It seems that the people who can choose it should have no less than three million houses in their families.
However, Netgear is not the world's first WiFi7 router, as early as January this year, Asus released a WiFi7 Octopus game router at the 2023 CES conference. In fact, the first in the world to come up with a WiFi7 wireless router is TP-Link, a brand that bought dozens of civilian models when I was in college.
Let me help you popularize science: WiFi7 technology was established in 2019, and MediaTek completed the first WiFi 7 technology live demonstration in January 2022; At the 2022 MWC conference, Qualcomm released the world's first WiFi7 chip, followed by TP-Link released a number of WiFi7 routers in November, the first of which is BE900. Although BE900 is an entry-level model that tests the waters, its pre-sale price has already come to the 5k price, can the mid-to-high-end model be cheaper?
Sure enough, by the time Netgear released the first WiFi7 wireless router, TP-Link's WiFi7 family has many new members, as shown in the figure below, from BE6400 to BE13000, are Qualcomm A73 architecture industrial-grade WiFi chips, quad-core 2.2GHz CPU, from 2 frequency 6 streams to 3 band 12 streams, covering different gears. It will be released in March, and it will be released after April, and there is no need to think about it, the price should be generally higher than five thousand pieces.
And that's not the end of it. Its latest WiFi7 router, BE24000, has also been exposed. This flagship WiFi7 router has a lighthouse AI antenna system, which has 4 times the performance of traditional router antennas and has stronger signal coverage. This model is equipped with 12 independent high-specification FEMs, 12 data streams on three bands, 2 10G network ports + 4 2.5G network ports + 1 USB3.0, and supports three working modes, respectively for signal dead zone, tracking coverage terminal, and dual lighthouse networking mesh function.
Unlike the previous 6 models that have been clearly on the market, the specific parameters and price of this "lighthouse" will continue to wait, but it is certain that it will be more expensive, and ordinary users can take a look.
Is a WiFi7 router a gimmick?
You may ask, the speed of WiFi6 is already fast, is it necessary to follow WiFi7? My answer is: we can watch without paying first, but when WiFi 7 is popularized, it will definitely make WiFi6 obsolete, and you will definitely consciously "get in" WiFi7 at that time.
Looking at the following table, many people will find that they have never understood what WiFi 4 is, they have come to the WiFi 5 era, and the popularity of WiFi 6 does not give you a breather.
WiFi wireless transmission standard protocol from 802.11.n, to 802.11.ac, to the popularity of 802.11.ax Over the years, your mobile phone and computer performance has also undergone obvious evolution and upgrades. The flagship mobile phone of that year is now without looking at it, when WiFi7 was popular, WiFi6 was yesterday's yellow flower.
This conclusion also depends on the improvement of WiFi7 quality. In short, WiFi7 is not only faster, but also has lower latency. Borrowing the popular science chart of the bad review, it can be seen that WiFi7 can support 4096QAM, which is 20% higher than WiFi6's 1024QAM.
In terms of speed, WiFi7 has been greatly improved. At present, the fastest WiFi6 router speed is 9000Mbps (equivalent to 1148M at 2.4GHz, plus two 5GHz 2402+4804M total bandwidth). The wireless bandwidth of TPlink's first WiFi7 router BE900 has reached 24000Mbps (including 1376M for 2.4G, 5760+5760M for two 5G, and 11520Mbps for 6GHz, Note: The current Internet equipment does not support the 6GHz frequency band and cannot be used, wait for popularization).
In addition, the MU-MIMO of the WiFi7 router has been upgraded to CMU-MIMO, and the supported data flows have been upgraded from the maximum 8 of WiFi6 to 16 of WiFi7, and the dual routers can provide MIMO through mesh networking, and the "seamless" sense of switching between different signal coverage areas is stronger.
There are also such as signal anti-interference capabilities, flexible scheduling capabilities between different frequency bands (2.4G/5G/6G tri-band automatic seamless switching, and even simultaneous access to multiple APs), in a more complex and larger coverage wireless signal network environment, WiFi7's capabilities far exceed WiFi6. Space is limited, here is not a list of key points to interpret, interested students can wait for my popular science detailed update when they return.
I know that some friends who spend quite frugally will scoff at WiFi7, and the 100-dollar WiFi5 and WiFi6 routers are still used. But we can't deny that the era of WiFi7 civilians is no longer far away. Maybe this year's WiFi7 router will still be at the price of five thousand, but after 2 years or even 1 year and a half, once the WiFi7 terminal is widely popularized, the price of WiFi7 wireless router will also fall, the future is not far away, let's wait and see!
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