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TP-Link confirms successful Wi-Fi 8 trials — next-gen wireless standard to usher in advances in reliability and latency (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Unyieldingly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.