What you need to know about iPhone 16 Pro & Wi-Fi 7 aka 802.11be
What you need to know about iPhone 16 Pro & Wi-Fi 7 aka 802.11be
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- Supports all three 2.4GHZ, 5GHz & 6GHz Wi-Fi bands. Using Broadcom chipset.
- Only supports max channel bandwidth of 160MHz. No 320MHz channel support. In my opinion, this isn't a deal breaker as I would prefer a clean 6GHz band, low latency and low retransmissions rate. Don't forget in Europe we only currently support one 320MHz channel on the 6GHz band, so would have to use a narrower channel bandwidth anyway to avoid adjacent channel interference with other 6 GHz access points.
- Only currently supports Multi-Link Operation (MLO) - Enhanced Multi-Link Single-Radio mode (EMLSR). The iPhone connects using two different Wi-Fi bands and only actively uses one of them and the second band is there for backup purposes. I.e. 6GHz & 5GHz or 2.4GHz.
- As per the Apple Wi-Fi specification document, the 'Maximum Phy data rate' is the same as Wi-Fi6E, so the max performance rate seen through testing will also be similar. I.e. approx. 1.5Gbps.
Please let me know if you find anything that I missed?
CheerZ