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Wi-Fi 7: How the next wireless breakthrough will power up your Apple devices

As I write this, Apple still does not have Wi-Fi 6E in any of its products. That’s expected to change very soon, but the market is already moving on to the next big thing: Wi-Fi 7. Why should you care about the new standard? Well, everyone likes more bandwidth and lower latency, both of which are core goals of the new standard. But the biggest benefit might be the way it’s designed to smartly overcome congestion and instability, delivering more stable networks that perform better in challenging conditions.

Known in the IEEE standards as 802.11be, the final specification for Wi-Fi 7 is still a couple of years away from being completed. But

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