Mixing other WiFi devices with a WiFi 7 network

Hopefully, GL.iNet will one day make a fully OpenWRT compatible router and I guess that means a Mediatek chipset! Anyways, if I am using MLO and my understanding is that it's part of the WiFi 7 specs. Does that mean a WiFi 6 product like the Flint 2 won't be able to connect to the WiFi 7 MLO network and act as a repeater? Does that mean I'll need to have an MLO-based network and a non-MLO network?

Thank you!

Hi,

I will collect this requirement, I think it is good suggestion, and I also hope to support repeat(connect) to MLO AP on repeater in the future

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Are you saying it's currently not possible?

Yep, repeater does not support to connect the MLO WiFi (AP) at present.

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Can this be fixed by software or will I need the hardware too?

This is not a bug, but a request.
Both of them.

Waiting the PM team to evaluate it first.