Wifi 7 is still being rolled out. But now wifi 8 is on g?

Slow down. Work on what will be the next generation of wireless technology is still in its early stages. The specifications are not scheduled to be finalized until four years from now, around September 2028. Then it will likely be another couple of years before the market has had time to adjust and starts selling Wi-Fi 8 devices. 

In what ways will WiFi 8 be better than previous standards? 

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The official name for the upcoming Wi-Fi technology is a bit confusing, but it gives a clue as to what's to come. A key goal of IEEE 802.11bn Ultra High Reliability is to increase the robustness – or reliability – of networks with many access points.

This will be done, for example, through improvements to the coordinated spatial reuse technology, which was introduced with Wi-Fi 6. It is used to coordinate access points in a network so that multiple devices can send and receive data simultaneously on the same channel – without creating interference for each other. Early tests carried out by semiconductor company Mediatek shows that wifi 8 can increase throughput from 15 to 25 percentThroughput is a measure of the maximum amount of data sent across all devices on a network per unit of time. 

Another finesse that the organization Wifi The Alliance continues to hone in on coordinated beamforming. Beamforming, as beamforming is called in Swedish, is a technique for directing and focusing radio signals so that signal strength is improved and interference is reduced. Coordinated beamforming helps access points in mesh networks become better at coordinating their antenna patterns to provide even stronger signals aimed directly at each individual user. Mediatek, which is also pre-testing this technology, speaks of a “significant improvement” on this front compared to previous standards. 

Will even more frequency bands be added with WiFi 8? 

No, no changes are expected there. Wifi 8 will, just like wifi 6e and 7, use the 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz frequency bands. The new standard, like wifi 7, will have a channel width of 320 MHz in the 6 GHz band and use 4K-QAM. 

Yes. But how much faster can the new Wi-Fi standard be? 

It remains to be seen. Wifi 7 has a theoretical maximum speed of 46 Gbit/s, although network experts Ny Teknik spoke to say that users should expect data transfers of 1.5 or 2 Gbit/s. According to the site Everything RF, it should The theoretical top speed for WiFi 8 is 100 Gbit/s. Nothing is clear yet, and time will simply tell what actual speeds you land at. 

My new phone only supports WiFi 6. Do I have to scrap it now? 

No pix. Wifi 7, which has just arrived, is backwards compatible. Wifi 8 is also expected to be – just like all previous updates to the wifi standardThis means that devices with support for, for example, WiFi 5 or 6/6e can connect to WiFi 7 networks. And probably also WiFi 8 networks when that day comes.