igeekphone November 27 news, today Xiaomi officially announced that Xiaomi router has officially passed the Wi-Fi 7 certification, three products are about to be upgraded to unlock, and the theoretical peak rate of the terminal is up to 80%.
The three products are Xiaomi 10 Gigabit Router, Xiaomi Router BE7000 and Xiaomi Router BE6500 Pro.
The above three routers actually support Wi-Fi 7 factory hardware, but limited regulations, and did not unlock this part of the performance, and now finally can achieve full blood.
According to the official introduction, the new firmware will be officially pushed before December 30.
Upgrade path:
Mijia App> Router Convention Plugins > Upgrade Assistant Check upgrade logs and manual updates.
Or open Automatic Update in the upper right corner of the Update Assistant page. The device will automatically download the update.
As for connected devices, Xiaomi has supported the Wi-Fi 7 series since last year’s Xiaomi 13, and the flagships of the past year have basically supported it.
Wi-Fi 7 is IEEE 802.11be, and supported routers are usually named “BE”, just like “AX” in the era of Wi-Fi 6.
The new feature is to support 320MHz bandwidth, 4096-QAM modulation, MRU/MLO and other cutting-edge technologies, typical speed 30Gbps, peak can exceed 40Gbps.
For comparison, Wi-Fi 6 has a peak speed of 9.6Gbps, while Wi-Fi 5 has a peak speed of 3.5Gbps.
In other words, Wi-Fi 7 can be up to four times faster than Wi-Fi 6.