Wi-Fi 8 is appearing at CES before most of us have switched to Wi-Fi 7

https://www.theverge.com/tech/856883/ces-2026-wi-fi-8-asus-broadcom-mediatek

37 Comments

  1. MolotovMan1263 on

    Wifi 7 is more about a feature set than it is about hardware, I imagine 8 will be similar

  2. I work in the industry. Wi-Fi 8 is about avoiding latency spikes so your automated factory arm doesn’t miss a “stop” command and smash into something.

  3. That’s how technology works. You keep innovating, you don’t stop. 4k tv’s were already being demo’d before most of us had 1080p tvs. It takes awhile for new technology to become affordable for the masses

  4. 7 is a mess. Too much of the features are “optional” which means no one implements them.

  5. Meanwhile, it seems none of the Wi-Fi 7 routers implement the Wi-Fi 7 features correctly, namely MLO that aggregates multiple frequencies.

  6. Only reason I have WiFi 7 is throughput. I have a 10gbps connection and run on 6ghz, so speeds are amazing. Not 10gbps, more like 3.7, but it’s still amazing enough that it can even do 3.7 on a per device basis.

    WiFi 8? Meh, even with lag spikes it’s robust enough at this point for me.

  7. This always happens, they start developing and releasing the future WiFi standards long before the majority have migrated.

    Next it will be WiFi 10 is appearing before most of us have switched to WiFi 9

  8. bro I just upgraded to wi-fi 6. WTF do you mean everyone is using wi-fi 7? There’s a Wi-fi 8?!

  9. My house is still on some ancient out of support UnIFi APs (Maybe WiFi 5) because everything that matters is connected with Cat6.

  10. JohanMcdougal on

    Faster Wifi is kinda pointless when your internet bandwidth is going to be the bottleneck. Gimme better pings and reliability any day.