Home Internet Revolution: Mesh Networks, Quantum Links & Wi-Fi 7 Are About to Change Everything
By 2024, whole-home mesh systems were expected to account for about 47.6% of all home router sales. Netgear’s Orbi 970 (late 2024) and Orbi 870 (early 2025) mesh systems use Wi‑Fi 7 tri‑/quad‑band designs to deliver 20–27 Gbps and support 150–200 devices. Wi‑Fi 7 (802.11be) can reach up to about 23 Gbps on a single band, uses 320 MHz channels and 4096-QAM, and employs Multi-Link Operation for simultaneous multi-band backhaul. In 2025, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs achieved entangled photon transmission over 30 km of fiber with 99% fidelity for 17 days and demonstrated 82 km total distance with 92% fidelity. In