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lazycatjumping ◴[] 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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uyzstvqs ◴[] 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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1. hanikesn ◴[] No.45680357[source]
In my experience Apple clients have been incredibly clingy to 6ghz bands, while much better 5ghz was available.