Teaming up with its industry mates, TP-Link has shown that Wi-Fi 8 can handle beaconing and data throughput. It’s a small but crucial step towards unleashing yet another wireless standard to confuse consumers and excite marketing departments.

Wi-Fi 8 ditches the speed-chasing antics of its predecessors. Instead, it’s all about rock-solid stability, wide coverage, and keeping a steady connection even when the network is rammed with devices. You can wander about with your gear without the signal vanishing, and the whole thing should lag less even if you’re far from the router.

The outfit insists this next-gen tech can juggle more devices at once without choking. Early tests suggest that claim might not be entirely bonkers.

A TP-Link spokesperson said the company had taken “an important step towards the highly reliable wireless performance that the industry requires, given the increasing availability of devices and bandwidth-intensive applications.”

Now all they have to do is make it cheap enough to buy and stable enough to survive the real world.