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I think so to, luckily Wifi 7 can be disabled, until more Wifi 7 devices are available if somebody had to purchase a new router tomorrow and was concerned about complications etc.
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I dont see a benefit of WiFi 6 or 7 for next 10 years or even more in a house with many homebrewed devices.
They need WiFi 4 to work, so at least you need it with 2,4GHz for those devices (heatpump control or sensors and arduino/ESP or DTU for solar tracking).
These divices are often without further support but needed to run aplications and no possibility to change them.
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WiFi 6 or 7 speeds are great for moving large file sizes and downloading say movies from your local NAS, but for general usage (home) especially if you are not yet connected to a full fibre ISP, then you cannot fully take advantage of Wifi 6 and 7 potential.
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The Asus BT10 seems to be going on sale in early August (8th), and will hopefully be a lot cheaper than the BQ16 and BQ16 Pro (and I’m not sure they’re easy to get hold of here anyway – certainly Amazon is quoting a delivery time of up to seven months!).
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-zenwifi-bt10-dual-pack-white-aimesh-8x-antennas-per-unit-mu-mimo-tri-band-10gbe-80211be – £787.99 for a twin pack.
It would also appear to be closest in look and feel as the XT8 that I currently use. I would like to change purely for better backhaul and doing away with the issues relating to Airport radar signals (I am quite close to Luton airport) that has limited me to 80MHz backhaul for most of my time of ownership.
Having 160MHz would mean most of my smartphones would connect at 2400Mbps and therefore I’d get closer to the full gigabit speed throughout the house (instead of 850-900 when in the same room, and 500-600 elsewhere). Many of my phones are also Wi-Fi 7 compatible, but I don’t have any computers, tablets, or TVs that do and likely won’t for many years.
At that price I think I will wait a bit. I’d probably wait for some competition and bite if it gets to nearer £500.
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