Name: WiFi 7 tested: is it really worth the upgrade?
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T04:19:53.000Z
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Should you upgrade to a Wi-Fi 7 router when most of your devices are still using Wi-Fi 6?

Thanks to my friends at ASUS for sponsoring this video and for sending over the ASUS RT-BE92 router, which has tri-band Wi-Fi 7, so I can finally answer the questions with a bunch of tests.

Now, before I connect to this, let's start by running some tests using my current Wi-Fi 6 router.

Wi-Fi 7 is all about that speed, but there are two types of speed.

We have an internal network speed and we have an external internet speed.

This one has a Wi-Fi 6 network card and this one has a Wi-Fi 7 network card.

Both are Core i9 processors and both have 32 gigs of RAM and both are connected to the Wi-Fi 6 router.

Right, so the first test I'm going to run is to copy a large file, this is 5.2 gigs, from my local C drive over to my NAS, my network attached storage, and we want to see how long that's going to take and that's connected over my network.

So I right click, I paste, and then we begin the timer.

Now, of course, I'm speeding this up because nobody wants to watch the 1%, 2% thing going on and then I'll show you all the results collected together at the end, so don't worry too much about the timing right now.

So we've made a note of that Wi-Fi 6 laptop connected to a Wi-Fi 6 router and we're going to repeat the exact same test with the exact same file, but this time on a Wi-Fi 7 laptop connected to the same Wi-Fi 6 router.

So 5.2 gig file, copy that and we're going to paste that and we're going to start the timer.

And once again, in full disclosure, before somebody adds me in the comments, this is measuring the actual time that it takes.

We want to see if it makes any difference if you use a Wi-Fi 6 network card or a Wi-Fi 7 network card.

Right, we're still connected to the Wi-Fi 6 router and the next test is we're going to go external.

Now, for the external test, what we're going to do is we're going to take the same 5.2 gig file and we're going to drop it into Google Drive and, of course, start the timer from the second that it starts uploading.

And this is the Wi-Fi 6 laptop connecting to the Wi-Fi 6 router and we want to see if there's a difference going outside of your own network.

Now, it's important to also note that this isn't indicative of everybody's speed because your ISP, your internet service provider speed, also plays a huge role here.

Depending on your upload speed and your download speed, you're going to get different results.

Now, because I'm using the same service provider for both the Wi-Fi 6 and the Wi-Fi 7 laptops using the same Wi-Fi 6 router, which means we're comparing like with like.

OK, now that the upload has been done, the next thing is to delete the file on my local C drive and, of course, let's go do a download test.

So, right click on the file, click on download.

You're going to choose save and start the timer.

Until it's complete, the timer will continue to run, but we're just going to keep an eye out on the file until it's completely downloaded and we're going to stop the timer.

Let's change our laptops and go to the Wi-Fi 7 laptop with a Wi-Fi 6 router.

Uploaded from my C drive to Google Drive and we're timing it on the fast forwarding, but you got that already.

All right, now that the upload is done, let's delete the local file.

So, we see there's nothing in there and let's go back to our Google Drive.

Click on the save button and the timer starts and we're going to stop it when it stops downloading.

Now that we've seen how Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 laptops react on the Wi-Fi 6 router, the next thing we're going to do is we're going to test our phones.

I'm going to do them with a Wi-Fi 6 phone and a Wi-Fi 7 phone close to the router, which is just behind these doors, and then one on the most furthest point in the house.

Let's see what the speed difference are going to be.

So, this is going to be point number one, right outside these doors.

And the second point, well, let me show you.

So, the furthest point is about 100 or so feet, which is roughly about 30 meters.

And the one outside the office, well, that's the close point.

All right, at the close point, Wi-Fi 6 phone connecting to a Wi-Fi 6 router.

We're going to run a Wi-Fi analyzer. 1,200 megabits per second is the link speed test.

It's typically the speed between the phone and the router itself.

Now, let's do a speed test connecting to the Frontier network.

And of course, I'm fast-forwarding all this, and the results will be at the end.

Right, at the furthest point, Wi-Fi 6 phone connecting to a Wi-Fi 6 router. 612 megabits per second.

We're going to run the same speed test connecting to the Frontier network.

And I'll tell you the results at the end.

Switching off to the Wi-Fi 7 phone connecting to the Wi-Fi 6 router.

So, I just want to make sure we're comparing apples with apples the entire time.

And as you can see, 2,268 megabits per second at the closest point.

Frontier network is always the same server time and time again.

Let's go to the furthest point in the house.

Okay, test on the Wi-Fi 6 router is now done.

And now I'm going to switch over to the Wi-Fi 7 router to the RTB92.

And then I'm going to compare the results.

Whilst this router is still booting up, let's decipher some of those geeky terms that no normal human can actually understand.

And imagine you're on a freeway with multiple lanes.

Nice and fast, which is what you get with Wi-Fi 6.

Now comes Wi-Fi 7, which not only adds more lanes, but also increases the speed limit.

That means you're going to go a heck of a lot faster.

And that is what the geeks mean when they say Wi-Fi 7 has wider channels and higher frequency.

Wi-Fi 7 has 320 MHz channels in the 6 GHz band, whereas Wi-Fi 6 has 160 MHz.

Now, sticking with our cars and traffic, let's imagine you're in a super fast car, you're flying down the freeway, and all of a sudden you notice a traffic congestion in the far left lane.

Now, imagine that your car also has a facility to take any of the free lanes on the highway that are not currently being used, combine them together so that you can zoom down the highway even faster.

Now, in Wi-Fi 7 terms, that is called multi-link operation, which is pretty cool.

Is your car's headlights, that they're either in the on or off position.

Now, you can flash your headlights really quickly, but totally not in the cool category.

Imagine your car not only being able to do that, but your car's headlights are able to change color and are able to increase or decrease the brightness level.

That gives you infinitely more possibilities.

In Wi-Fi 7 terms, it means that Wi-Fi 7 packs more data into each transmission, which results in smoother streaming, reliability, improved performance, and faster speed, which let's be honest, is all that we want.

But the big question is, does it actually work?

Or is it more marketing stuff trying to force us to buy more stuff that's going to be cool in the future?

Well, now that the Wi-Fi 7 router is up, the proof is in the pudding or whatever that saying goes.

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