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TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency

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by ChocolateGod

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> While some draft specifications could be released in 2027, the official Wi-Fi 8 standard is projected to be finalized only in mid-2028. Commercial products that officially support the new standard are not expected to reach the market until late 2028 at the earliest.
I bet companies will release WiFi 8 products even when it's still a draft, just as they did with WiFI 7.
I upgraded my home setup to WiFi 7 a few weeks ago, and after being a WiFi hater for so long, was actually surprised at how much better it was over my previous experiences with WiFi. With MLO clients get 2-3ms latency with 2.5Gbit links, I'm all for WiFi 8 trying to reduce the latency further, I don't need more speed.

by lazycatjumping

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Wifi-8 will be great. Finally we get seamless controlled handovers between accesspoints that can be controlled from infrastucture side.
With MAP 2.4GHz can serve as long range network that can be filled with High-Rate 5GHz / 6GHz cells. And all of them can be utilized in parallel.
802.11be (Wifi-7) still lacks this.

by zenethian

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As an aside, what happened to the rumors about TP-Link stuff being compromised and used for botnetting by China? Was it true or unfounded?

by tymonPartyLate

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If you want reliable Wifi at home, get yourself Ubiquity access points and throw away TP-Link. The issue is not the protocol. After many years of unplugging and plugging back in my TP-link router I know that they are cursed.

by throw0101a

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Perhaps worth noting that 802.11bn is dubbed "Ultra High Reliability (UHR)":
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11bn
So they're explicitly look at more than just adding more bits per second.

by randomtoast

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