On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> You also have to know that wifi6 and wifi7 is almost completely pointless in > the enterprise space. Whether it's pointless or not, deep pocket enterprises will always upgrade, and the last-gen hardware will get resold by the VARs who install the new gear. Whether that decommissioned enterprise gear is useful or not depends on the device and whether firmware replacement is practical. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. As ever, this is a function of opportunistic and motivated reverse engineering. One of the innovations of wifi 7 and wifi 6e are the expansion to the 6GHz band. Also, as of wifi 6, AP to clients can send different data to different clients in the same transmission. These have impact in high client-density environments. The other thing going on, which is reason for some long-term optimism, is that the vendor community is also depending on the FOSS community. They USE OpenWrt when developing their stock firmware. If they choke off OpenWrt, they choke themselves. They don't want to have to develop their own firmware from scratch. -- Russell Senior [email protected]
