“Thanks to WiFi 7, we can delete all the cables that we have installed for years! “, Promises this expert

“Thanks to WiFi 7, we can delete all the cables that we have installed for years! “, Promises this expert


Samsung Galaxy S25, Honor Magic 7 Pro… and the iPhone 16: smartphones gradually adopt the new WiFi 7 standard. What will it change in our uses, how this wifi capable of stratospheric flows go booster Our connections? And how can it be optimized in our interiors? 20 Minutes Asked Lionel Paris, network product expert for Netgear.

Lionel Paris, Network Product Expert for Netgear.
Lionel Paris, Network Product Expert for Netgear. - Netgear

Clearly, WiFi 7 implies what for our uses?

With WiFi 7, this is the first time that wifi has been faster than the wired! Thanks to him, we can delete the network cables that have been installed for years. Today, there is therefore more interest in using the wifi connection of a television, because the wired port, in most cases, does not exceed 100 Mbit/s. The experience we have with all WiFi 7 products (there are already 300), but also WiFi 6e (there are more than 1,200) will be considerably increased, with a puff of palpable air given to WiFi.

While Samsung is launching its Galaxy S25 in WiFi 7, why are it said that Apple’s iPhone 16 are not equipped “in real WiFi 7”?

Samsung’s Galaxy S25s apply the WiFi 7 standard 100 %, unlike Apple iPhone 16. The latter are well compatible in the “standard” sense of the term, but do not support the maximum bandwidth of WiFi 7. Apple has made the union minium.

WiFi 7 thus requires two things: a reinforced security aspect (the WPA3 standard WiFi 7 version), and the possibility of using two frequency bands simultaneously, what is called MLO (or multi-lien operation). The iPhone 16 respects these two criteria well, and therefore can legitimately mention WiFi 7, but stop along the way by offering only 50 % of the power of WiFi 7!

Today, WiFi 7 offers for the first time a speed up to 5.8 Gbit/s for your devices, which is absolutely huge. However, on the iPhone 16, it is only half, which, in terms of flow, corresponds to the 6th wifi, the old standard.

It is intriguing this “MLO”. What is it?

In addition to some smartphones, the MLO has also been supported by Windows since October 2024. Thanks to him, the mobile phone or the computer are able to use two WiFi strips simultaneously for the very first time in the history of WiFi. The advantage is not only the increase in flow up to 8.7 Gbit/s (because we add each of the bands), but also to drastically extend the range of WiFi to its home.

Bouygues Telecom's new WiFi 7 Bbox 7.
Bouygues Telecom’s new WiFi 7 Bbox 7. - Bouygues Telecom

Thus, with the two available strips, the smartphone uses one or the other depending on the spacing compared to the WiFi 7 terminal. There is a tangible profit in the ease of use of WiFi at home. Especially since more and more boxes are compatible WiFi 7. One year after Free, Bouygues Telecom has just announced its Bbox Ultym Wifi 7. It remains to wait for the response of Orange and SFR.

So, is this the end of the CPL (the online carrier current)?

The more the years pass, the less the CPL has use: we connect more and more connected products and objects, but less and less with network cables. Facing the CPL terminals with integrated WiFi, the first price of a WiFi 7 router is powering in power what could be obtained with the CPL …

THE gamers So may particularly appreciate WiFi 7 …

Yes ! Because historically, they do not use WiFi for games with high level of competition. For them, responsiveness is the key to everything, with a unit of measurement which is millisecond. WiFi 7 has a latency equivalent to that of the fiber line, that is less than 10 milliseconds. It is a WiFi latency divided by a hundred, which offers unprecedented responsiveness to WiFi 7.

At Netgear, what does the arrival of WiFi 7 involve?

What is important is that WiFi has become the default means to distribute the Internet. For a manufacturer like Netgear, WiFi 7 is also an opportunity to make a clean sweep. The brand will redeploy all its ranges in WiFi 7, with WiFi systems, WiFi routers, USB WiFi keys to meet each market segment, each need.

Among others, the Netgear Orbi 770 orbi system makes it possible to mesh accommodation on different levels.
Among others, the Netgear Orbi 770 orbi system makes it possible to mesh accommodation on different levels. - Netgear

Count an investment of 349 euros for a simple WiFi 7 router (ref: Nighthawk RS300), ideal in a single-storey accommodation.

For stalls, we recommend our orbi WiFi systems, which, thanks to Mesh technology, will be able to be associated and create a unified network throughout the house.

In this range, we have three products with three different levels of use. The Orbi 770 (from 699 euros in two) packs will be suitable for most households with fiber lines up to 2 gbits. The 870 (from 899 euros) pushes the traffic jams further with an internet entrance to 10 gbits, perfect for distributing the power of the new Fiber 8 GB symmetrical lines of Free and Bouygues.

The flagship remains the 970 (from 1,699 euros) which does absolutely everything, with wired ports in 10 gbits on each of the terminals. All of these products, which can take a number of simultaneous connections to 250 peripherals without flinching, integrate our Armor safety suite which protects all the connected equipment from the house and mobility.

WiFi 7 arrives just after WiFi 6th, launched in France in January 2022. And we are already talking about WiFi 8. Why this incessant quest for speed?

As we connect everything in wifi, wifi cannot be a bottleneck, it must follow the evolution of our fiber lines and be able to distribute 100 % of this power today and for years to come . The studies of the IEEE (World Institute in charge of creating WiFi standards) on WiFi 8 have indeed started, it is planned for 2029.

Generally, there is a renewal of the WiFi standard every 4 or 5 years. The 6th WiFi was for its part a transitional protocol, which brought a new frequency band, those of 6 GHz (in addition to the 2, 4 and 5 GHz).

To give you an example, it took three years to the manufacturer Honor to add the 6 GHz band to its smartphones. It says a lot … The best student remains Xiaomi who implemented WiFi 7 on certain smartphones, but also tablets, from March 2023.

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