Are you using Wi-Fi 6?
I heard that Wi-Fi 7 has been launched, and many domestic manufacturers have successively released **Wi-Fi 7 routers.
At the same time, many mobile phone manufacturers have also officially announced that they will upgrade to support Wi-Fi 7 one after another, which means that we are getting closer and closer to "trying" Wi-Fi 7.
In fact, with the launch of the Wi-Fi 7 router, the first users who "eat crabs" have been born. In terms of appearance, compared with ordinary routers, Wi-Fi 7 routers have more antennas, are thicker and more solid, and have a sense of technology.
Take ZTE Wentian BE7200 Pro+ as an example, with 2 2500M ports and 3 Gigabit ports, plus 1 USB 30 interface. In the evaluation, some professionals measured the downlink rate of 1Gbps, and the downlink rate measured by the mobile phone was 198Gbps with an uplink rate of 16Gbps (Wi-Fi 7 is not supported on the test phone).
It is worth mentioning that the test network environment is 1000M broadband, and if you count various losses such as network cables, the performance is very strong.
According to the Wi-Fi Alliance standard, compared to Wi-Fi 6 and 6e, Wi-Fi 7The channel bandwidth has been doubled, from 160MHz to 320MHz.
Just like the original two-lane, there will be traffic jams from time to time during peak hours, expand the bandwidth, two lanes become four lanes, and there will be more cars that can run.
Wi-Fi 7Highest transfer rateIt can reach 46Gbps, which is 3 times that of Wi-Fi 6; Wi-Fi 7 will support 24GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz frequency bands, but in China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has taken the lead in dividing 6GHz (6425-7125MHz) for 5G 6G systems in 2023, so the 6GHz frequency band supported by domestic Wi-Fi 7 may be different from foreign countries.
Wi-Fi 7 is usedMulti-link transmission technology(MLO) to enable data to be transmitted simultaneously through multiple paths, reducing latency and improving reliability.
When one of the channels is interfered with, the device can automatically switch to the other channel to ensure the stability and reliability of the network connection. Wi-Fi 7 devices are also backward compatible with previous Wi-Fi versions.
Adhering to the tradition of "one generation is stronger than the next", Wi-Fi 7 will "crush" Wi-Fi 6 in terms of speed, latency, and number of connections.
In terms of Wi-Fi 7 routersFrom 399 yuan to 699 yuan, and then to 1599 yuan, the configuration is different, and the ** is not the same. Compared to Wi-Fi 6 routers, which are still the mainstream, Wi-Fi 7 is still a "new variety", and the price is not cheap.
Currently, most Wi-Fi 7 routers are concentrated in500 1000 yuan,Like XiaomiBE7000The price is799element、ZTE Wentian BE 7200 Pro+The first sale is**599element、TP-Link BE6500, etc.,Basically"standard"Quad-core chip、Multiple 2500M network ports and1GB memory,**And related configurations belong to the middle range。
* A little higher, and here it is1,000 yuan stalls。There are about two models on the market, one is the Xiaomi BE10000 priced at 1599 yuan, and the other is the Xinhua III BE18000, both of which are equipped with 10 Gigabit network ports.
Among them, Xiaomi BE10000 uses a Qualcomm quad-core A73 chip, which supports 52ghz and 58GHz, theoretically the highest speed can reach 5764Mbps and 2882Mbps respectively, for professionals with 2K 4K Ultra HD **uploading**, VR AR and other equipment, of course, can be the first batch of users to eat crabs.
However, it is worth noting that if you want to "try" the real seventh-generation wireless network technology Wi-Fi 7, you must also keep up with the "trend" of supporting Wi-Fi 7.
At present, mobile phones equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen2 3 and Dimensity 9200 9200+ 9300 chips, such as the Xiaomi 14 series and OnePlus 12, have supported Wi-Fi 7 in hardware.
Not long ago, the Wi-Fi Alliance officially announced that it is based on IEEE 80211BE's Wi-Fi Certified 7 certification standard will be officially launched at the end of the first quarter of this year, which means that Wi-Fi 7 routers that have been launched may be certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
In fact, as early as 1999, Wi-Fi technology was born, and it was not until 2009 that the standard name of Wi-Fi 4 was officially given, and in 2013, Wi-Fi 5 was ushered inIn 2019, Wi-Fi 6 officially debuted, and this year, if nothing else, Wi-Fi 7 will also usher in large-scale commercial use.
But Wi-Fi 7's 6GHz band is in "conflict" with the frequency band used by cellular mobile networks, as mentioned in a draft by the Ministry of Industry and Information TechnologyWi-Fi 7 only uses 24GHz and 5GHz, the same as Wi-Fi 6。In the future, it remains to be seen whether Wi-Fi 7 will be able to get the 6GHz band as desired.
What do you think of those first Crab-eating Wi-Fi 7 users?