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TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency

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41 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 18 Oct 25 18:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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tymonPartyLate ◴[23 Oct 25 08:20 UTC] No.45679489[source]▶
If you want reliable Wifi at home, get yourself Ubiquity access points and throw away TP-Link. The issue is not the protocol. After many years of unplugging and plugging back in my TP-link router I know that they are cursed.
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gambiting ◴[23 Oct 25 08:58 UTC] No.45679742[source]▶
Anecdote time - I've had their BE550 Wifi 7 router for over a year now and it's been rock solid. Easily does 2Gbps over wifi, never had to reset it once despite having 40+ devices connected to it all the time, the 4x 2.5Gbps ports are super useful.....it is one of their more expensive devices so maybe that's why, but generally it's been very very solid.
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1. argsnd ◴[23 Oct 25 10:32 UTC] No.45680306[source]▶
I own two consumer-grade Deco XE75 access points which I purchased several years ago as the most cost-effective 6E compatible access points available. They have proven to be exceptionally reliable.

Although I have previously encountered significant issues with WiFi, I now do not see a need to replace these devices despite the availability of WiFi 7.

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2. SkyPuncher ◴[23 Oct 25 13:08 UTC] No.45681375[source]▶
My deco seems to be really poor at picking a channel at boot up. When I have performance issues running the optimizer almost always moves it to a different channel and solves my issues.
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3. argsnd ◴[23 Oct 25 14:12 UTC] No.45682020[source]▶
I just ran the optimiser after reading your post and it changed the 2.4GHz channel - I think the main reason I've been so happy is that the laptops and smartphones I primarily use support 6GHz where there is no interference and channel selection doesn't matter.