Intel and Broadcomm manage to reach 5 Gbps through WiFi 7 in a demonstration

Intel and Broadcom have demonstrated what can be achieved with their upcoming WiFi solutions. Specifically, a laptop has been tested with intel core processor and your own Intel WiFi 7 card, along with a Broadcom access point.

The WiFi card used has been a Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200 using precisely the 320 GHz and the 6 GHz band that this new standard allows, destined to be the WiFi solution for the next 10 years, replacing WiFi 6 and as a direct evolution of WiFi 6E with its 2.4 GHz bands, 5 GHz and 6 GHz. WiFi 7 also introduces the use of 320 Hz channels on 6 GHz.

In the tests that both companies showed, this new solution achieved speeds over 5 Gbps wirelesslywhile under the same conditions, the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 with 160 Hz hovered slightly above 1 Gbps.

That’s a 5x improvement in bandwidth and allows for much higher WiFi speeds than most wired Ethernet connections. It is true that there are solutions at 5 and 10 Gbps through Ethernet, but they are not yet widespread, and even 2.5 Gbps is now beginning to become more or less common.

Recall that Broadcom itself has presented WiFi 7 solutions and SoCs with ability to exceed 11 Gbps wirelessly. Companies like Qualcomm already promise more than 33 Gbps, and others like Mediatek go up to 36 Gbps. Still, these speeds typically refer to combined bandwidths in multiband, so typically a single connection between a router and a device will hover around speeds like those demonstrated by Intel and Broadcom.

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