All wireless devices in your home or office are designed around a particular Wi-Fi standard, from the router driving your network traffic to the smartphone in your pocket. The most recent version, Wi-Fi 6E, supports breakneck transfer speeds and many simultaneous wireless connections. However, yet another successor is beginning to appear in the advertisements of consumer networking hardware, and Wi-Fi 7 promises even more fantastic wireless enhancements.
Is there a reason to get excited? The Wi-Fi number keeps increasing, but many modern devices stick with previous standards without much issue. Looking deeper into an otherwise across-the-board set of improvements leads you into a rabbit hole of confusing networking terminology and an endless supply of acronyms, so I'll break down everything we know so far in a more easily digestible format.
