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Wi‑Fi Titans Clash: Starlink Gen3 vs TP‑Link Deco BE95 vs Netgear Orbi 970 – 2025 Mesh Router Showdown

Wi‑Fi Titans Clash: Starlink Gen3 vs TP‑Link Deco BE95 vs Netgear Orbi 970 – 2025 Mesh Router Showdown

Starlink Gen3 Router is a tri‑band Wi‑Fi 6 base station designed for SpaceX Starlink, priced at about $199, with 2× Gigabit LAN ports and support for up to 3 Starlink mesh nodes. The Gen3 router uses the Starlink dish uplink as its WAN and cannot input a non‑Starlink ISP, making it a Starlink‑specific solution. The maximum theoretical throughput is 3.2 Gbps, with real‑world tests showing about 864 Mbps near the router and 203 Mbps at 50 feet. TP‑Link Deco BE95 is a quad‑band Wi‑Fi 7 mesh system, nicknamed BE33000, featuring two 6 GHz bands and up to 33 Gbps theoretical
Wi-Fi 7 Showdown: ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro vs Netgear Orbi 970 vs TP-Link Archer BE900

Wi-Fi 7 Showdown: ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro vs Netgear Orbi 970 vs TP-Link Archer BE900

The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro is a quad-band Wi-Fi 7 router with two 6 GHz radios (6GHz-1 and 6GHz-2) delivering up to ~30 Gbps total throughput (BE30000) and a 2.6 GHz quad-core CPU with 2 GB RAM. It has seven LAN ports, including two 10 Gbps ports and four 2.5 Gbps ports plus one Gigabit port, and is AiMesh-ready with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. The Netgear Orbi 970 is a quad-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh system that uses a dedicated backhaul across one 5 GHz band (and part of 6 GHz) and can cover up to 10,000 square feet
15 August 2025
Li-Fi vs Wi-Fi 7 vs 5G: Which Next-Gen Wireless Will Rule 2025?

Li-Fi vs Wi-Fi 7 vs 5G: Which Next-Gen Wireless Will Rule 2025?

The IEEE 802.11bb Li-Fi standard was ratified in mid-2023, providing a global framework for interoperable Li-Fi devices. PureLiFi’s Light Antenna One module can deliver about 1 Gbps at distances from 20 cm to roughly 3 m using standard LED sources. Lab demonstrations have surpassed 100 Gbps with Li-Fi, with a cited test reaching 224 Gbps in lab conditions. Real-world Li-Fi speeds are around 1 Gbps, and Li-Fi is positioned as a complementary technology to Wi-Fi rather than a replacement. Wi‑Fi 7, known as 802.11be, began certification in 2024, and by 2025 the first Wi‑Fi 7 routers, mesh systems, and client
5 August 2025
Home Internet Revolution: Mesh Networks, Quantum Links & Wi-Fi 7 Are About to Change Everything

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
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