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Broadband and telecoms provider KCOM, which has built their own full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of East Yorkshire (mostly Hull) and Lincolnshire in England, has this week become the latest ISP to adopt Amazon’s Wi-Fi 7 capable eero 7 (and eero 7 Pro) routers for new broadband customers of their internet access packages.
According to the announcement, both the eero 7 and eero Pro 7 deliver up to 186m² of wireless coverage per device, “meaning Wi-Fi dead spots and unconnected corners are a thing of the past“. But this is incorrect, Wi-Fi 7 is good but cannot perform miracles in every home (signal depends upon materials, layout, local Wi-Fi congestion etc.). The eero 7 can, however, connect more than 120 devices at once, while the eero Pro 7 can connect more than 200 devices at the same time.
The provider goes on to highlight the benefits of Wi-Fi 7’s Multi-Link Operation (MLO) technology, which uses multiple Wi-Fi bands simultaneously to maintain stability when networks are busy. “It is also capable of handling speeds of 5Gbps, meaning it’s future-proofed against ever faster broadband speeds and devices“, said KCOM’s update.