first Wi-Fi 8 router

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_8

The standard is projected to be finalized in May 2028.

Anything that anyone is selling now as being "Wi-Fi 8" is at best a guess as to what Wi-Fi 8 will be along with (hopefully) later firmware updates.

We don't even have proper consumer Wi-Fi 7 routers, why the hell do we need Wi-Fi 8? Wi-Fi 7 is supposed to support simultaneous multi-band connections per device and not a single consumer one does this. The most expensive ones out there will do this weird thing where it'll communicate in a rapid alternating signal, but that's still not proper. Even if they support 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz, and include multiple radio chips, they are giving us the shittiest Wi-Fi 7 experience.

And that's not even to talk about how "Wi-Fi 7" is the actual standard and some makes are skirting this by calling what they do "WiFi 7" simply so they can avoid false advertisement.

considering tp-links response to firmware updates on supported hardware was "get fucked", my only response to them is

First things first. Can it run OpenWRT?

I have a TP-Link router.

It's great, but the first one I got was broken right out of the factory, so this is a warranty replacement for the first one that I got.

It'll reach end-of-service before hitting store shelves and have unpatched security vulnerabilities anyway.

After bouncing from linksys to tp link and finally landing on unifi im really very very happy with unifi. Just an absolute pleasure to use my router now. Nice and stable and a ui that doesn’t actively hate me

It impacted gl.inet also. I can't wait for The Day, it needs to come soon.

I would say this is the key line in the headline and why I'm going to read the article: "but ban keeps it out of US market". Yet nothing in the article tells me why it's banned and instead I have to click a link in the article to find out? Is this article only meant for people who have been following the wireless router market for the last 6 months?

Yeah, well, they're shit anyway

Oh no....

Anyway.

Yeah, the ban on TP-Link is for good reasons.

I will wait for Wi-Fi X.

at the end of the say you can kiss my wifi.

I recently got a tplink wifi AP. I needed just a little more punch for wifi to reach the porch and my old netgear wax620 was becoming temperamental. I got a wifi 7 AP.

Looking around, everything at microcenter was leaning heavily into ubiquity but I won’t trust something that needs a controller on a seperate device in my network. I also don’t like how it’s push so heavily, and has been found in Russian warfare repeatedly. It feels like “the only backdoors are the one the US approves of. Here ya go!” I don’t trust it.

So I get the TP link and it’s as janky as I remember and unstable and fuck I likely will have to install an omada controller on my network somewhere anyways and holy fuck is that Java? And the range improvements lasted a week before it gave up on the back porch again so I likely will have to get an outdoor AP anyway or put the old netgear in the garage and dig a line to that.

Fuck I hate tech anymore.