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purplecat

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Apparently, when the iPhone 16 was released, there was a new "Wi-Fi 7" feature? What does it do and what iPhone 16s are it on?
 
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XxShadexX

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So presuming your home is equipped with a modern WiFi 7 router and you have a good internet service subscription, you’ll see a huge boost in internet speed on your phone.

Wifi 6e (the outgoing tech) reached a peak of 9.6gbs, where WiFi 7 can reach a peak of 46gbs. It does this by utilizing all available WiFi signal bands at once afaik. Basically far better tech. As the others stated it’s new, WiFi 7 has only been around since last year so most have not upgraded to it yet. Personally as I have a WiFi 7 setup I’m quite excited to see how well it will work.
 
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Lobwedgephil

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So presuming your home is equipped with a modern WiFi 7 router and you have a good internet service subscription, you’ll see a huge boost in internet speed on your phone.

Wifi 6e (the outgoing tech) reached a peak of 9.6gbs, where WiFi 7 can reach a peak of 46gbs. It does this by utilizing all available WiFi signal bands at once afaik. Basically far better tech. As the others stated it’s new, WiFi 7 has only been around since last year so most have not upgraded to it yet. Personally as I have a WiFi 7 setup I’m quite excited to see how well it will work.
I am excited to see as well, but I am doubtful it will be a noticeable difference as it is very fast now already.
 
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XxShadexX

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I am excited to see as well, but I am doubtful it will be a noticeable difference as it is very fast now already.
i imagine it will be mostly useful for uploading large files or downloading games (very excited to try running RE4 on my phone :D) but yeah in most cases it probably won’t be a hugely noticeable upgrade.
 
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4sallypat

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I am looking at upgrading my home wifi router from WiFi6 to WiFi7.

WiFi 7 will be useful for my future Mac and iOS devices.

I love Ubiquiti - very easy to deploy and manageable from mobile app.

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splifingate

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I am looking at upgrading my home wifi router from WiFi6 to WiFi7.

WiFi 7 will be useful for my future Mac and iOS devices.

I love Ubiquiti - very easy to deploy and manageable from mobile app.

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I have two NanoHD's in my house, and they serve decent WIFI

UI exposes excellent hard/soft, but imo, they traditionally surf the backside of the wave...it will probably be two years (or more) before UI brings v.7 products to the masses ;)
 

klasma

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Wifi 6e (the outgoing tech) reached a peak of 9.6gbs, where WiFi 7 can reach a peak of 46gbs.
Practical measurements so far show net peak rates around 3-4 Gbps under optimal conditions (access point at close range) for single Wifi 7 devices. It’s still about three times the practical net peak rates for Wifi 6E.
 

XxShadexX

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Practical measurements so far show net peak rates around 3-4 Gbps under optimal conditions (access point at close range) for single Wifi 7 devices. It’s still about three times the practical net peak rates for Wifi 6E.

hah it figures the marketing for it would push it far and above what its capable of, but that also makes sense since I never got close to what the "peak" of 6e was.
 
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