TP-Link conducts successful Wi-Fi 8 trials

[+thexfile Subscriber²]

Not expected to arrive until 2028.

Chinese tech firm TP-Link has announced its first successful Wi-Fi 8 trial using a prototype device. According to the company, the trial – conducted in collaboration with an unnamed partner – successfully validated both the Wi-Fi 8 beacon and data throughput, marking a "critical milestone in Wi-Fi 8 development."

TP-Link added that it is working with multiple "ecosystem partners" to help shape the next-generation wireless technology, which it believes will deliver improved bandwidth, reliability, speed, stability, and efficiency as more devices connect to the internet and applications become increasingly bandwidth-intensive.

https://www.techspot.com/news/109837-tp-link-conducts-successful-wi-fi-8-trials.html

 

[sagum]

Mean while, motherboards still come with 1gigabit ethernet as standard. Not even enough to saturate a harddisk, let alone an SSD, and may as well be banging rocks together at the side fo the PC using morse code to transmit when it comes to NVMe speeds.

Still faster speeds regardless are a welcome change. No change in freqency, so should be at least the same distance performance ratio.

[+samw61 Subscriber²]

It does depend what you're doing with said PC and network. For most people, Wireless N, or 4 I think, would cover their needs, just like 1Gb ethernet does it for wired. While wireless speed is an obvious improvement in the next gen wireless, it's the other features that make the real difference. Speed's now mostly irrelevant, even if it's still the basic measurement people froth over. 

[SystmSix]

All I know is the TP-Link BE33000 Mesh systems I install for customers are the fastest mesh system out that I have ever seen. On a two gig down system it will pull 2300-2400mbs through walls and concrete.....