This is more of a public service announcement, but if you were excited about getting WiFi 7 on your new M5 MacBook Air or M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro, then you might have been a bit shocked to see your laptop only connecting to your WiFi 7 wireless router with WiFi 6 (as I was).
There has been some chatter in networking communities about the cause of this, and it currently seems like a bug that Apple needs to resolve. Currently the workaround for certain routers is to enable MLO (multilink operation) on the SSID. Without MLO: WiFi 6. With MLO: WiFi 7.
I have tested this on my own Unifi controller, with success. The biggest issue (on my network at least) is that MLO can break other things, so I've had to disable it for now until Apple sorts this out.
Sorry I'm not super technical with networking technologies, so I can't really deep dive into all the reasons for what's going on, but I thought this post might be helpful to someone here.
There has been some chatter in networking communities about the cause of this, and it currently seems like a bug that Apple needs to resolve. Currently the workaround for certain routers is to enable MLO (multilink operation) on the SSID. Without MLO: WiFi 6. With MLO: WiFi 7.
I have tested this on my own Unifi controller, with success. The biggest issue (on my network at least) is that MLO can break other things, so I've had to disable it for now until Apple sorts this out.
Sorry I'm not super technical with networking technologies, so I can't really deep dive into all the reasons for what's going on, but I thought this post might be helpful to someone here.