I thought they dropped 16x and left it at 8x like wifi6. Pretty much every client device is still going to be 2x2, or maybe you could call it 4x4 if running MLO in two bands.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > In the list of supposed advantages of WiFi7 over WiFi6, I see 16 spatial > streams vs 8. > > > > Can someone explain to me the mechanism for using 16 spatial streams in a > typical WiFi environment? I have a hard time wrapping my head around > anything more than 2 using V/H or dual slant polarization. > > > > I was willing to believe that maybe you could get more (like maybe 4 > spatial streams) due to reflections off furniture and stuff, and that > somehow signal processing could magically separate out the streams (even > though I don’t understand how it does that). But 8 or 16 just sounds like > crazy talk. > > > > Maybe it’s like the rich people houses with 16 car garages, if I were rich > people I would understand? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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