TP-Link Archer BE550
Magnificent seven
ROUTER | £180 from Amazon www.snipca.com/55981
We’ve recently reviewed several Wi-Fi 7 routers priced under £200, most of which are dual-band models. These omit the 6GHz band and instead focus on delivering Wi-Fi 7’s speed improvements over the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Since each band requires its own dedicated radio hardware for sending and receiving data, dropping one band cuts manufacturing costs — and in turn, the overall price — considerably.
It supplied enough bandwidth across the house to stream six 4K movies simultaneously
Previously, the only exception to this rule was the Acer Predator Connect T7 (£170 from www.snipca.com/55194, reviewed in Issue 713), which squeezes in a tri-band system but compromises on other features – limiting the number of Ethernet ports to two, for example.