MSIYesterday, a Twitter post (via Uniko's Hardware) spread in tech circles highlighting how MSI's marketing material advertising "true" Wi-Fi 7 support using 320 MHz modules compared to Wi-Fi 7 support using 160 MHz modules. For the uninformed, this might seem like a minor difference or even an exaggeration for marketing's sake on the part of MSI or the other companies participating in this marketing, but it actually...isn't.
If anything, this may be a necessary advertising push to teach end users the difference between Wi-Fi 7 in name only and actual Wi-Fi 7 hardware. The issue with Wi-Fi 7 using 160 MHz modules is that this effectively locks them to the maximum speed of already-existing Wi-Fi 6E networks, which also operate using 160 MHz. While both Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 can utilize 6 GHz Wi-Fi, you won't achieve the two times-plus rated performance improvements of Wi-Fi 7 without client and host devices operating at 6 GHz and using 320 MHz modules.
