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Incoming that Cool TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Wave!

Four key improvements of Wi-Fi 7

The new Wi-Fi standard, which has the official and technical name of 802.11be, encompasses all previous Wi-Fi revisions with lots of new features — some still are being worked out. However, you can remember four essential items below.

1. The all-new 320MHz channel width

The first is the new and much wider channel width, up to 320MHz or double that of Wi-Fi 6/E.

Organically, this new channel width is only available on the 6GHz band, with up to three 320MHz channels. However, Wi-Fi 7 can combine portions of the 6GHz and 5GHz bands to create this new bandwidth — more in the Multi-Link Operation section below.

I detailed Wi-Fi channels in this post, but generally, the new channel width means Wi-Fi 7 can double the base speed, from 1.2Gbps per stream (160MHz) to 2.4Gbps per stream (320MHz).

So, in theory, a 4×4 broadcaster 6GHz

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Nicky Chicca by — November 15, 2022 in Texas Tech Football
TP-Link Deco X50 Outdoor, PoE, Powerline Now Available

The year 2022 is the year when TP-Link keeps its word. The company today announced the availability of its latest Wi-Fi 6 mesh variants to turn its Deco ecosystems complete — all were first announced at the beginning of the year.

Specifically, if not today, you’ll soon be able to buy the Deco X50 Outdoor, Deco PX50, and Deco X50 PoE that collectively fulfill all situations any residential user would run into while setting up their home network, including Outdoor, Powerline, and PoE.

These new mesh variants make Deco the most flexible mesh brand yet.

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The Deco X50 Outdoor comes with two PoE Gigabit ports and a power port. It’s wall- and pole-mountable.

A trio that meets any needs

All of the new Deco variants share the same Wi-Fi specs. They are all Dual-band broadcasters with up to 3000Mbps Wi-Fi bandwidth (AX3000) — similar to the Deco X60.

As part

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Nicky Chicca by — November 5, 2022 in Texas Tech Football