Zyxel NWA50BE

Modest performance, but this dual-band Wi-Fi? AP delivers great business-class features at alow price

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Prices for business Wi-Fi 7 access points have been falling steadily, and Zyxel takes this to the next level with its NWA50BE costing a pocket-friendly £62. As you'd expect at this price, there are compromises: it lacks a 6GHz radio and has a modest BE5100 rating, but it's powered by a quad-core Qualcomm CPU and can be managed in standalone mode or remotely using Zyxel's Nebula Control Center (NCC) cloud platform.

It isn't mandatory for Wi-Fi 7 APs to have a 6GHz radio, and the NWA50BE is endowed with all the other key Wi-Fi 7 features, including 4K-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), multi-RUS (resource units) and support for multi-link operations (MLO). If you want future-proofed wireless networks, consider Zyxel's NWA50BE Pro model, as its BandFlex technology allows you to swap the second radio from 5GHz to 6GHz operations whenever you want.