We’ve got all the details to keep you abreast of what to expect from the next-generation wireless standard.Wi-Fi 7 should accommodate the inevitable arrival of 8K video streaming and the ongoing promise of immersive, low-latency extended reality (XR) applications for industrial and gaming purposes.Wi-Fi 6 vs Wi-Fi 6E vs Wi-Fi 7 |Header Cell - Column 0||Wi-Fi-6||Wi-Fi 6E||Wi-Fi 7| |IEEE Standard||802.11ax||802.11ax||802.11be| |Wireless Bands||2.4GHz, 5GHz||2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz||2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz| |Max Channel Bandwidth||160HZ||160HZ||320HZ| |Maximum Spatial Streams||8||8||16| |Maximum Bandwidth per Stream||1200 Mbps||1200 Mbps||2400 Mbps| |Theoretical Maximum Data Rate||9.6 Gbps||9.6 Gbps||46 Gbps| |Advanced Modulation||1024 QAM||1024 QAM||4K QAM| As you might expect with a new wireless standard, Wi-Fi 7 is backward compatible with all previous iterations like Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 5.In November, TP-Link announced half a dozen Wi-Fi 7 routers with two of them already up on Amazon and due to ship in a couple of months.. For serious performance junkies, the quad-band TP-Link Archer BE24000 offers a combined 24.4 Gbps bandwidth.This mesh routing system comes with one router and one satellite that can cover up to 7,800 square feet (which is quite remarkable for a two-node system)."