New MediaTek MT7987 and MT7988 router boards and WiFi 7 cards

[mex778]

@Ramon

Is the WiFi7 fully functional?

NO

@Ramon

or should I wait for something better to come along?

YES

Maybe it is a good idea if we talk about the R4 to use the term "development router board".
I like the R4 but if we use the term router it will imply, that it is a product for end consumers.

Boards:

R4 Lite

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite design with Mediatek MT7987 chip

R4 Pro

BPI-R4 Pro design with MT7988, update version for BPI-R4, any good idea?

OpenWrt Two
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2025-February/043722.html

WiFi 7 Cards:
AW7991-AE2

Wi-Fi 7 AP M.2 Card with AE key interface, reach BE5000 (5000Mbps) speed with...

AW7990-NPD

WiFi7 BE3600 Mini PCIe AP Module AW7990-NPD

[hecatae]

It's worth reading about the progress on the ZenWiFi BT8

Support for Asus ZenWiFi BT8 Tri-band Wifi7 (Mediatek MT7988)

I recently looked for routers having similar hardware as the Banana Pi BPI-R4 and asked if anyone had tried the TP-Link BE805 (not BE800) At this link you can see wifi7 hardware in different routers and the recently released Asus Zenwifi BT8 (RT-BE14000) has a similar Mediatek setup. However, I noticed that models that have support for Openwrt all use the MT7988A cpu and Asus has a MT7988D And there is a older model from TP-Link: TL-7DR7230/7260 - that has the same MT7988D cpu that does not h…

[Ramon]

@mex778

Maybe it is a good idea if we talk about the R4 to use the term "development router board".
I like the R4 but if we use the term router it will imply, that it is a product for end consumers.

so you are saying not good enough for end users, but what does that mean? In what way is it currently not good enough?

[Ramon]

interresting, I wonder why they dont put a 10GB lan port on it.

[castillofrancodamian]

It means that it is not a plug-and-play device like any commercial router.

[hecatae]

Good question, probably not the target