Meter Access Points

Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) is the latest wireless standard, and it's the first major leap in years that practical users will actually feel. Compared to Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7 delivers roughly 4x the theoretical throughput, dramatically lower latency, and much better performance in crowded environments. The real-world wins: cleaner video calls when 50 people are in the office, faster file transfers without ducking to a wired connection, and stable performance for streaming, AR/VR, and modern collaboration tools. For most businesses installing or refreshing wireless today, Wi-Fi 7 is the right standard to deploy — your laptops and phones will catch up over the next 18 months anyway.

The A1 is the premium indoor access point — designed for high-demand environments where wireless performance is mission-critical: open offices, conference rooms, co-working spaces, trading floors, and any space with dense device counts. The A2 delivers the same Wi-Fi 7 performance but in a form factor and install profile tuned for hospitality and guest-facing spaces — hotels, restaurants, lobbies, retail. The radio performance is comparable; the differences are aesthetics, mounting flexibility, and how easy it is to roll out across many similar spaces. We'll match the right model to each part of your facility during the site survey.

Depends on square footage, ceiling height, building materials, expected device density per area, and what kind of work happens there. As a rough rule, a typical open office runs one AP per 1,500 to 2,000 square feet; conference rooms and high-density spaces need more. Warehouses, retail, healthcare facilities, and educational spaces each have different patterns. Meter's design team does a proper RF design — coverage maps, channel planning, density modeling — before any APs ship. The free assessment includes a walkthrough and a recommendation specific to your floor plan.

Yes. Wi-Fi 7 is backwards-compatible all the way back through Wi-Fi 6, 5, 4, and earlier. Older laptops, phones, printers, and IoT devices connect to the appropriate band (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, or 6 GHz for Wi-Fi 6E/7 devices) and work normally — they just don't get the Wi-Fi 7 speed advantages. Your newer devices use the full Wi-Fi 7 capabilities; your older devices use whatever standard they support; everything coexists on the same APs.

Wi-Fi 7 access points operate on three bands simultaneously — 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz. The 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands are close enough in frequency that radios can interfere with each other inside the AP, dropping throughput and increasing latency. Most vendors handle this with software workarounds. Meter designs its own circuit boards specifically to isolate the radios at the hardware level, eliminating the interference. The practical result is cleaner connections, higher sustained throughput on both bands at once, and consistent performance in dense environments where every other AP would degrade. It's the kind of engineering most clients never notice — until they compare it side by side with off-the-shelf hardware.