Wi-Fi is an ever-evolving technology that connects our favorite devices wirelessly to the internet. From routers to laptops to phones and IoT gizmos, if it gets wireless internet, it's using a Wi-Fi standard.
As it stands at the beginning of 2026, most of our hardware is still using Wi-Fi 5 (the 802.11ac standard introduced in 2013) or Wi-Fi 6 (the 802.11ax standard introduced in 2021).
