For people in really congested areas (dorms, apartments, etc), and people who just run every device they own on WiFi because they don’t know any betterWhat is the selling point again?
My guess is "Yes" it will. Even though it will be backwards compatible with older standards (it has to, or older devices break), and there's no real compelling reason to upgrade your WiFi device to these standards - other than just to say you did.2.) So this "Wifi 7" I presume is artificially limited to Windows 11 to coerce people to upgrade, just like "Wifi 6E" was?
So the argument here is... You run a homewifibg, a homewifi e or C or whatever, and maybe a homewifi7 network. (many routers support at least 2.) Then you join your devices to the standard they can use at the range you can fulfill.My guess is "Yes" it will. Even though it will be backwards compatible with older standards (it has to, or older devices break), and there's no real compelling reason to upgrade your WiFi device to these standards - other than just to say you did.
My house is still running on 802.11N and that's still perfectly serviceable. Like Zath, anything that needs performance is wired - it's just random mobile devices and IoT crap that's on WiFi. A lot of my devices don't support anything past B/G, and they don't really need to for what they do.
A good WiFi AP can already do this, provided is has sufficient width in the channel. Staring with N, a good AP can channel bond and allow devices to communicate on multiple channels simultaneously for higher throughput. MIMO was also added in N, allowing a device to utilize multiple antenna connections simultaneously. Beamforming was added in AC, again, for APs that support it.For Wifi to get REALLY good they need a way to have individual paths of traffic.. through I don't know... advanced beam forming... channel proliferation... something... so every device has a unique connection.. you know... like a network switch. THEN you will have great per device performance even on heavily populated SSID's.