Wi-Fi 8 is appearing at CES before most of us have switched to Wi-Fi 7

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The archetypal Wi-Fi 8 routers and chips made a astonishment quality astatine CES 2026, and could motorboat this year, lone a mates of years aft Wi-Fi 7 debuted. So, if you don't already person a Wi-Fi 7 router - and galore of america don't - you mightiness privation to see holding disconnected connected upgrading.

Rather than focusing connected velocity upgrades, Wi-Fi 8 promises improved stability. It offers the precocious speeds and bandwidth of Wi-Fi 7, but with improved powerfulness efficiency, higher throughput, and amended peer-to-peer connection betwixt devices. Wi-Fi 8 is besides amended astatine maintaining fast, unchangeable connections erstwhile users are moving devices around, oregon moving them further distant from …

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