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WiFi 5 is good enough for almost everyone, so most people aren't exactly going to be in a big rush to upgrade.
Most wifi 5 routers have bad security issues, latency, crap QoS and, a lot of Wifi 5 chips don't have the hardware acceleration needed to be useful anymore, and if they're not supported by firmware like OpenWRT they're mostly just e-waste/bot net boxes. I seen wifi 7 routers going for 25$ where i live they don't have 6Ghz.
I have a Ubiquiti AP along with some Google wifi (pre nest) hubs running OpenWRT all with 2.4 / 5.
And honestly I see no reason to update in the coming years, unless there are some major vulnerabilities around these devices.
I don't need the fastest wireless speeds or latency, if I need either I'll sit at my desktop or have a server handle the downloads via Ethernet.
Especially with all this focus on high speed, low range signals. What people really want is reliability. But bigger number better I guess
But just think of how fast a device in my rack can wirelessly send data to another device on my rack
How many ghz does wifi 5.6.7.8 run at? What's the range?
It runs on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. WiFi 6E and later use 6 GHz as well. There is some equipment that runs on 60 GHz, but that's mostly for point to point links. There is also WiFi HaLow that runs on 866 or 915 Mhz for low speed IoT stuff.
The higher the frequency is, the less penetration it has. 5 or 6 GHz signals will have trouble going through a single masonry wall. With clear line of sight and directional antennas, the range can be tens of kilometers.