It means the AP is handling 16 streams at once, not the clients. I've seen designs up to 64 with 32 2x2 streams. Massive MIMO is a good strategy.
Rory On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM castarritt <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought they dropped 16x and left it at 8x like wifi6. Pretty much > every client device is still going to be 2x2, or maybe you could call it > 4x4 if running MLO in two bands. > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In the list of supposed advantages of WiFi7 over WiFi6, I see 16 spatial >> streams vs 8. >> >> >> >> Can someone explain to me the mechanism for using 16 spatial streams in a >> typical WiFi environment? I have a hard time wrapping my head around >> anything more than 2 using V/H or dual slant polarization. >> >> >> >> I was willing to believe that maybe you could get more (like maybe 4 >> spatial streams) due to reflections off furniture and stuff, and that >> somehow signal processing could magically separate out the streams (even >> though I don’t understand how it does that). But 8 or 16 just sounds like >> crazy talk. >> >> >> >> Maybe it’s like the rich people houses with 16 car garages, if I were >> rich people I would understand? >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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