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Beware that their (Unifi U7) MLO implementation is still in Alpha and Early Access. 2.5GE at the Ubiquiti Wifi-7 APs is a bad joke.

TP Omada at least has 10GE support.

The UniFi E7 also has a 10GE port.

Seeing as the majority of Wi-Fi devices will get absolutely nowhere near the theoretical maximum though, even 2.5GE is unlikely to be saturated.

thanks, could definitely consider doing an access point instead of full router replacement

seems like this one doesn't currently have MLO but might come in a future firmware update. Though then limited by single 2.5Gbps ethernet port

To saturate 2.5Gbps in a single direction with WiFi 6/7 modulations with 2x2 MIMO (most phones, tables, laptops have 2 antennas), you need a (total) channel width of 200MHz, and that's for devices in the same room as the AP. If you want to saturate it with devices in the next room, you need closer to 240-300MHz, for example: using say you use MLO with 160MHz on 6GHz, 80MHz on 5GHz and 20MHz on 2.4GHz), totaling 260MHz.
Your going to be hard pressed to saturate that “single” 2.5g eth port.
Wifi 7 + MLO = 4Gbps >> 2.5Gbps
Those numbers aren't close to being realistic.

I tested out with U7 Pro Max (MLO enabled on EA firmware) and QC WiFi7 card and it topped out at about 800-900Mbps within the same room. Impressive for WiFi still, but reading the WiFi speed numbers on the box and expecting them to actually be achievable wasn't realistic for a decade now.

Idk why you say so. It doesn't take much searching to find receipts for people showing 3-4Gbps. But "realistic" is gonna be very hardware/firmware dependent, proximity to router, etc.

Examples

2 yrs ago hitting 3.9Gbps https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/13ipl7n/tp_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1hal8bm/intel_... "I have a BE200 in use on KDE neon. Kernel is compiled with the usual wifi7 modules. I hit 4Gbit/s on an MLO network."

https://www.reddit.com/r/telus/comments/1b3xrlf/wifi_7_speed... "WiFi 7 can reach WiFi speeds up to 4 Gbps on my phone"

i believe the “Pro Max” variant of this access point has MLO in the early access branch. I have not tested it out myself yet.

hopefully they roll it out sometime this year!