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New technology klaxon! The Eero Max 7 is the second mesh we’ve seen – TP Link’s Wi-Fi 7 Mesh System BE85 was the first (APC 526, 5/5 stars) – that works with Wi-Fi 7, also known as 802.11be. Yes, that’s right: it’s barely two years since we were welcoming Wi-Fi 6E as the latest and greatest wireless standard, but its successor is already here.
And to be fair, this is real next-generation stuff. Wi-Fi 6E was basically the same standard as Wi-Fi 6, merely extended into a new wireless frequency range. Wi-Fi 7 is a more fundamental upgrade, with features including a new ultra-fast 320MHz channel width on the 6GHz band and 4K-QAM encoding that packs more bits per second into the carrier signal.
The most exciting enhancement is MLO, short for multi-link operation. All previous
