WIFI 6
Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that allows devices such as computers, tablets, phones, security cameras, Refrigerators, light switches, thermostats to interface with the Internet. It allows these devices to exchange information with one another, creating a network.
Latest wireless standard that’s used in wireless devices is 802.11 AX, which is more commonly known as Wi-Fi 6 which was released in 2019, and is the successor to the 802.11 AC Wi-Fi standard, which is known as Wi-Fi 5.
The main goal of Wi-Fi 6 is not just an increase in speed, but it was to make a Wi-Fi network perform better when a lot of devices are connected to it. Since more and more devices are competing for the Wi-Fi signal, it can slow down a network, because a Wi-Fi router can only communicate with a limited number of devices at a time, to meet this demand Wi-Fi 6 was developed. The older Wi-Fi 5 had a maximum speed of 3.5 Gigabit per second, but with Wi-Fi 6 the speed has been increased to 9.6 gigabits per second, which is a significant increase. This increase in speed is shared across multiple devices, and it does not mean that each of your devices will achieve this speed or this speed is on your local area network.
Wi-Fi 6 introduces some new technologies to help mitigate the issues that come with putting dozens of Wi-Fi devices on a single network. Wi-Fi 6 implements technologies like
OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) lowers latency and delivers data to multiple devices more efficiently.
MU MIMO, (multiple user, multiple input, multiple output). It allows multiple wireless devices to communicate with a Wi-Fi router at the same time. It breaks up the Internet bandwidth into individual streams and pushes it to the connected devices. So with this technology, you’ll see a significant improvement in the speed of your Internet.
Beamforming is a technique that sends transmissions in a specific direction, which strengthens the signal. But without beamforming, the transmission is sent in every direction, which weakens the signal. But with newer routers, the signal is directed to the devices that are connected to it
BSS coloring (basic service set coloring) minimize interference from nearby networks. When you have two Wi-Fi routers. next to each other, such as what happens with neighbors, the signals from the two networks can overlap and cause interference with the other signal.
WPA3 provides cutting edge Security features that enable a more robust authentication that will increase protection from password guessing attempts.
Target wait time this technology has the ability to extend the battery life in WIFI devices . The antennas in Wi-Fi devices are powered on while sending or receiving data, but when they are not sending or receiving data, they go into sleep mode, which saves battery life.
So who would benefit from a Wi-Fi 6 router?
Well, if you have a lot of wireless devices, like perhaps 15 or more than it would be recommended getting one, especially if you have closer to 20 devices.
