Best Budget WiFi 7 Routers (For Every Scenario)

[music] coffee check. And um now with Wi-Fi 7 having been out for a while, the price of Wi-Fi 7 routers has come down quite a bit. So, I figured I'd do another one of these roundup videos, but this time focusing on the best budget Wi-Fi 7 routers that I've come across, ranging from the best overall value to the best for business and more. But before we dive into that, a quick recap of some of the benefits. Wi-Fi 7 has all of the features from Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 6 and is backwards compatible with all of the previous versions of Wi-Fi. But if the router and any device on the network also support Wi-Fi 7, then they can benefit from all the pretty impressive features that Wi-Fi 7 brings, like double the stream, so more devices can communicate at once. More data can be sent per packet, which increases speeds. The ultra fast 6 GHz band that we get from Wi-Fi 6E is here and can support channels twice as large, so it is even faster. And MLO, or multilink operations allows the router and devices to combine all of the frequencies, 2.4 4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz together into a single connection and even dynamically move the device to whatever connection is best, along with sending data down multiple connections, essentially creating much larger pipelines to send and receive with. It's actually pretty clever, and if you want a deep dive on what Wi-Fi 7 is, I'll leave a link below to my full video on all of that. The thing is though that the only real downside of Wi-Fi 7 was the cost. And as mentioned, a lot of that has come down and now there are a lot of really good options out. [music] Firstly, this is my pick for best overall value. This is the TPLink BE600. Now, full disclosure, TPLink is the only company on this list that actually sent me their routers for this video. All of the other ones I bought myself. And firstly, it's one of the least expensive Wi-Fi 7 routers that are triband. So, it can project 2.4 4 GHz, 5 GHz, and the super fast 6 GHz all at once. Something a dualband Wi-Fi 7 router can't do. And it's utilizing all of the big features from the Wi-Fi 7 standard, including 320 MHz channels in the 6 GHz band for faster top speeds for devices that support Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7, 4K Quam, and MLO to fully utilize all three of those bands. Now, Tom's Got even said that it has class leading 60 GHz performance in their testing, and that it's quote the budget Wi-Fi 7 router to beat.