I would say this is the key line in the headline and why I’m going to read the article: “but ban keeps it out of US market”. Yet nothing in the article tells me why it’s banned and instead I have to click a link in the article to find out? Is this article only meant for people who have been following the wireless router market for the last 6 months?
It’ll reach end-of-service before hitting store shelves and have unpatched security vulnerabilities anyway.
First things first. Can it run OpenWRT?
considering tp-links response to firmware updates on supported hardware was “get fucked”, my only response to them is
We don’t even have proper consumer Wi-Fi 7 routers, why the hell do we need Wi-Fi 8? Wi-Fi 7 is supposed to support simultaneous multi-band connections per device and not a single consumer one does this. The most expensive ones out there will do this weird thing where it’ll communicate in a rapid alternating signal, but that’s still not proper. Even if they support 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz, and include multiple radio chips, they are giving us the shittiest Wi-Fi 7 experience.
And that’s not even to talk about how “Wi-Fi 7” is the actual standard and some makes are skirting this by calling what they do “WiFi 7” simply so they can avoid false advertisement.
And that’s not even to talk about how “Wi-Fi 7” is the actual standard and some makes are skirting this by calling what they do “WiFi 7” simply so they can avoid false advertisement.
I would argue that that is still false advertising, because most people can’t tell the difference between “WiFi” and “Wi-Fi”. 😔
Oh I completely agree, but in legal terms it actually works. Ridiculously stupid loophole.
That would not fly in Canadian courts, I honestly doubt it would in American one either.
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first Wi-Fi 8 router
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_8
The standard is projected to be finalized in May 2028.
Anything that anyone is selling now as being “Wi-Fi 8” is at best a guess as to what Wi-Fi 8 will be along with (hopefully) later firmware updates.
(hopefully) firmware updates
yeah about that
There’s already a lot of issues on how each manufacturer is implementing WiFi 7. And several of the issues are a hardware level, so I very much doubt they’ll be able to implement anything via firmware for wifi 8.
“pre-orders”
imagine preordering a consumer wifi router instead of going to the store and getting one. while there are no devices that can use it. who is this even for?
Yeah, well, they’re shit anyway
I know nothing about TP-Link issues, but pretty sure I have 2 of their routers 😔
Updates are non existent, basic functionality locked behind a subscription, iffy support, lousy documentation. They suck. I have one, and the only reason I haven’t replaced it is monetary I have too many other things eating into my budget to replace something that is working, if not to my preferences
Check if it can run OpenWRT
