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

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41 points thunderbong | 4 comments | 18 Oct 25 18:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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lazycatjumping ◴[23 Oct 25 10:03 UTC] No.45680162[source]▶
Wifi-8 will be great. Finally we get seamless controlled handovers between accesspoints that can be controlled from infrastucture side.

With MAP 2.4GHz can serve as long range network that can be filled with High-Rate 5GHz / 6GHz cells. And all of them can be utilized in parallel.

802.11be (Wifi-7) still lacks this.

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1. uyzstvqs ◴[23 Oct 25 10:39 UTC] No.45680340[source]▶
You can already make a MAP network, and any modern client will automatically hop between APs pretty fast, based on which one has the strongest signal. There's a common misconception that devices will cling to one AP while better ones are available, which hasn't been true in many years now from my experience.

Infrastructure side handovers are great for load balancing though, for enterprise networks with very high client density.

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2. hanikesn ◴[23 Oct 25 10:43 UTC] No.45680357[source]▶
In my experience Apple clients have been incredibly clingy to 6ghz bands, while much better 5ghz was available.
3. lazycatjumping ◴[23 Oct 25 10:50 UTC] No.45680399[source]▶
> based on which one has the strongest signal.

That's not what you want to have in an enterprise environment.

A roaming decision must be based on the signal level readings from both sides from the infrastructure side.

Everything else is gambling.

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4. SkyPuncher ◴[23 Oct 25 13:03 UTC] No.45681328[source]▶
In fact, I don’t even want it at my house.

I have a lot of low bandwidth devices that love to connect to a router further away and congest it. Makes the devices I actually care around run much slower.

The only solution is restarting my network one-by-one so they have a better chance of getting the right device.