News WiFi 7 by 2024 for Intel equipped laptops.

[L&LD]

WiFi 7 is coming up fast, thanks to Intel.

Intel Plans to Bring Wi-Fi 7 to Client Platforms by 2024 | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Lots of room to find a good 6E router in the meantime.

 

[RTWZ80]

WiFi 7 is coming up fast, thanks to Intel.

Intel Plans to Bring Wi-Fi 7 to Client Platforms by 2024 | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Lots of room to find a good 6E router in the meantime.

It (Wifi 7) might be available on flagship smartphones by 2023. I think the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first or one of the first to market with Broadcom's Wifi 6e chip back in February 2021.

 

[RTWZ80]

It (Wifi 7) might be available on flagship smartphones by 2023. I think the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first or one of the first to market with Broadcom's Wifi 6e chip back in February 2021.

All based on pre-certified Wifi 7 specifications of course...

 

[d5aqoep]

320 Mhz Channel width is the only thing I fancy in Wifi7.

 

[RTWZ80]

Intel tested a Wifi 7 equipped laptop with a Broadcom Wifi 7 access point. Both are expecting Wifi 7 devices to hit the market by the second half of 2023.

Intel and Broadcom demonstrate next generation Wi-Fi 7 products

Expected to debut in 2023.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[L&LD]

Nice article! The (wireless) future's so bright, we got to wear shades!

 

[RTWZ80]

I'm just happy Intel's working with Broadcom to ensure its Wifi 7 adapters will work with the new wireless standard. Now if only Microsoft could do the same with Windows...

 

[L&LD]

Microsoft (Windows) supports the majority of third-party hardware. Quite well, I would say. Can't say the same for the other guys.

 

[RTWZ80]

Agreed on most counts. Wish they'd make Wifi 6E support available on older Windows versions though. However, Microsoft is still lightyears ahead of Apple in the wireless adoption space. I'm primarily a Mac user so not being able to access the 160Mhz channels for Wifi 6/6E is a major annoyance. And even more so with the iPhone 14 range which was expected to launch with Wifi 6E onboard...and didn't.

 

[L&LD]

In the MS world, WiFi 6E is only supported on a fully updated Windows 11 install. Does anyone know the reasons why? Is it just to save programming resources on MS' part (to backport the functionality)? Or are there some other technical/licensing reasons too?

 

[RMerlin]

Windows 10 does support Wifi 6e.

 

[L&LD]

Not what I've seen.

Does Windows 10 Pro 64-bit support Wi-Fi 6e and all of it's - Microsoft Community

 

[RMerlin]

Not what I've seen.

Does Windows 10 Pro 64-bit support Wi-Fi 6e and all of it's - Microsoft Community

@thiggins was testing Wifi 6e stuff before Windows 11 even launched.

Tutorial - Installing a AX210 Windows 10 Driver that works

NOTE: As of 24 February, Intel has updated its installer to include the 22.30.0.11 driver. So the instructions are greatly simplified. I just went through installing a working Windows 10 driver for the Intel AX210. With credit and thanks to @avtella for his initial posts, I found a few details...

www.snbforums.com

 

[sfx2000]

Microsoft is still lightyears ahead of Apple in the wireless adoption space.

Apple focuses on what works for their customers - plainly put, there's a lot of "cool stuff" they 'don't support' because it's either not time yet, or it's just not useful - MU-MIMO is a good example of Apple saying "no, we're not doing this".

 

[sfx2000]

Windows 10 does support Wifi 6e.

not fully...

they could do much better, they just choose not to for Win10.

Not the first time they've done stuff like this...

 

[L&LD]

Of course he was. Going forward, Windows 11 only.

 

[RTWZ80]

Apple focuses on what works for their customers - plainly put, there's a lot of "cool stuff" they 'don't support' because it's either not time yet, or it's just not useful - MU-MIMO is a good example of Apple saying "no, we're not doing this".

I get Apple's rationale. It's a curated approach similar to 'omakase' Japanese fine dining where the chef determines each course in the meal based on seasonal ingredients to create the best experience for the diners. That's what drew me to macOS. Having said that, I also enjoy messing around with bleeding edge tech and the freedom to fully customise the user experience as and when I see fit. Therefore, I use a Wifi 6E-equipped Android phone and Windows laptop...paired to my AirPods Pro. Being brand-agnostic gives you a wider range of options IMHO.

 

[L&LD]

I'm not brand-agnostic.

I use what works as I expect it to (and funny enough, that seems to come from the same group of companies, repeatedly).

I've bought (and subsequently sold) many Apple devices. All of them are too limiting for my taste.

Limiting, in what I'm allowed to do with them. Limiting in what I can do with them. And limiting in a performance sense.

Their best feature? Battery life.

But there are solutions for that too on the other side of the wall.

 

[sfx2000]

It's a curated approach similar to 'omakase' Japanese fine dining where the chef determines each course in the meal based on seasonal ingredients to create the best experience for the diners.

That's a good way to put things... curation

I'm fairly platform agnostic - everything from Macs to Chromebooks to my gaming machine running Win10...

 

[sfx2000]

Couple of nice reads on WiFi 7

Good summary of the key WiFi 7 features/capabilities

What is Wi-Fi 7? - everything RF

Wi-Fi 7 or IEEE 802.11be is the next iteration of the IEEE 802.11 standard. It is the successor to 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6/6E) and will focus on providing indoor and outd

www.everythingrf.com

warning - PDF link below

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/pdf/wi-fi-7-and-beyond.pdf