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[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

See ya in 5 years when ISPs will start providing WiFi 7 enabled routers

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why would you use your ISPs router? Mine is set to modem mode an do have my own router which is far better quality and also totally under my control security wise.

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because most of the time they don’t let you, or make it super difficult to set up

Additionally, most end users aren’t tech savvy and just use whatever was given by the ISP

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, we plugged ours into the other modem and it worked immediately

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Key words: "most of the time". There are exceptions to this obviously

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, no one's talking about wifi 7 because it's not even close to taking off yet.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Google fiber and any other ISP that offers 1gbit or greater speeds are already giving with 6 routers, and 7 is soon to follow. Wifi 7 is already planned for Google Fiber and I know others have it on the way. Basically any ISP offering >1gbit speeds is going to have a wifi 7 router soon.

https://fiber.google.com/blog/2023/10/gfiber-labs-announces-first-project-20.html