@@vinnheggg1695 Yeah, depending on which Wifi 6E router you get you might get One 2.4Ghz bands and one 5Ghz and one 6Ghz bands. While other you will get Two 2.4Ghz and One 6Ghs ( no 5Ghz band). Edit: Thou with 6Ghz units, if you live close by an Air Port, there's a chance most of the channles will be closed off to help prevent inference with the Flight Tower radar.
Moving to a 6 GHz band will result in less penetration power thereby reducing the range of the wifi signal when using the 6GHz band. The next version of wifi should focus on improving penetration power so that the wifi signal gets less obstructed by the walls of rooms and floors.
Can someone explain how we would increase penetration power when the higher the frequency the closer the waves are together therefore making them have less penetration power? Won't we have to balance between data transfer and range?
@@thecoolguy9364 Yup, its very hard to do both, higher frequency has faster speeds but a shorter range and a lower frequency has slower speeds but a longer range. The biggest example of this is 4G vs 5G
@Angel Raj I disagree. Unless you replace your routers every year, it is good to buy a router with some future-proofing in mind. Waiting to get a 6E router might save a buyer from purchasing a new router for the next 6 years. At least that's the way I see it. Getting the best value of the hardware purchase is the way I would go about it.
2.4GHz = playing your phone anywhere in your house 5.0GHz = playing your phone close to router 6.0GHz = playing your phone besides router 7.0GHz = .... inside your router
not to mention the increases in random connection drops in computers because of hardware issues, drivers not "optimised", interference, a butterfly flaps its wings in the amazon jungle, etc. as the technology gets "better" and more "revolutionary"
Well, I was looking at upgrading my router to wifi6 but I guess I will wait till next year, not that long really and my current router still works pretty well.
I was thinking the same, but that's like a cat and mouse game. These advances are only going to come faster and faster as the tech matures. That 6 GHz does sound tempting though
@@RetroBerner Yes if you are using it near the router like in the same room or maybe even adjacent room (fingers crossed). 6ghz can't help with the range, at that point your device will probably use 2.4ghz
Glad to have waited to buy a Wifi6 router. Just bought a Wifi5 router for time being and will probably wait till most of the devices get upgraded to make the most of the extra band.
Wireless standards board, "We need to make things easier for people to understand, so Wifi AX is now "Wifi 6", and because this wasn't confusing enough we're going to start adding letters to numbers again."
i mean, Wifi 6E is literally just Wifi 6, but it now has extra stuff to work with, same technology, doesn't make sense to add 1 to the version just for a super minor change
But later this year the first wave 1 WiFi 7 devices are expected to better wait for those. But WiFi 8 is also coming along very well so better wait for those. But then WiFi 9 is already being worked on so better wait. And so on and so on.
Small nit: strictly speaking there are only two binary "digits" - 0 and 1; but there can be an arbitrary number of bits (short for binary digit) in a transmission! Binary digits (1 and 0) can occur in any bit position of a binary string/number. Get it?
I just want a 802.11ax AP that has 10gb and poe for consumers, cherry on top if it’s all weather as well. When that hits the market, I’ll upgrade to it.
Had to watch it twice because 98% of the video is explaining what WiFi 6 is and only briefly mentions that WiFi 6E adds the 6GHz band before going back to explaining WiFi 6.
You missed something pretty significant to the roll out of Wifi 6e. That is, currently the only country to open up the 6Ghz band to unlicensed transmission is the USA. Many countries have that spectrum associated with other licenced services, meaning it's extremely unlikely that band opens up to unlicensed use in most countries. You likewise failed to make clear that the only difference between Wifi 6 and WiFi 6e, is the addition of the 6Ghz spectrum. That means most of the world will only get WiFi 6 As of 9 January 2021, there are still no consumer 6e appliances. It's only enterprise currently.
I bought a WiFi 6 router a while back, but my secondary router is still WiFi 5. It gets replaced tomorrow. I have a grand total of two WiFi 6 devices (phones), and zero WiFi 6E devices. I'll be getting another WiFi 6 device in August. I'll be in no hurry to get those new routers when they come out later this year. That 6GHz band is going to be even worse at penetrating walls than the 5GHz band. I won't be interested in that band until I have a much more congested network.
Because literally the only difference between Wi-Fi 6 and 6E is that Wi-Fi 6E supports the 6GHz band. That's only really significant to anyone if they already have a lot of congestion on their 5GHz band.
Does it make your existing devices faster or does it just go back to the lower band to communicate with them. In other words do the wifi cards need to be upgraded with a new router.
You won’t see any real benefits if the devices doesn’t support WiFi 6 or 6E, but older Devices will still be able to connect to their supported frequency of 2.4 or 5ghz.
Wifi6E will of course be more expensive, as it will have the problem 5ghz has with barriers and therefore will require a better mesh. Something that started with the transition from 2.4ghz - 5ghz
Tough enough to find outdoor APs that use WPA3 that are budget friendly, so far I only found 2, a Netgear unit and an Engenius in my searches. Need my remote building, 350 feet away to share security cameras and not willing to trench, again, out to that building.. Had TP-Link CPE510s in use, worked great, just with too many campers next door looking for free wifi or trying out their hacking skills, thought put tougher barrier up.. I kept them low so trees would interfere long distance, but they still find a way..
I've held off Wifi 6 since Ubiquiti only had WIFI 5 AP units, then 6E is announced and I am still holding off so I can design a system around the Dream Machine Pro and 6E AP units, hopefully early next year. Any news on Unifi's progress with 6E APs?
I see no reason to upgrade from wifi AC. I bought a $400 asus rt 5500 a few years ago. Been great. Then I moved and the new provider included 2 pods/mesh network. A product named plume. Seems to work fine. The way they keep updating might just wait for wifi 10, lol
Yeah, you probably don't need to unless you either do a lot of data transferring over the local network, have a lot of devices on your network, or you host outdoor parties a lot where the extra range comes in handy.
Hi, here is Ry's answer: All we've heard from manufacturers is that we should expect to see new routers that support Wi-Fi 6E by the end of this year (and probably in time for the holiday buying season). Wouldn't be surprising if that included a mesh router or two, but we don't know that for sure yet. Sounds like we'll definitely see a greater variety of options in 2021, and the first phones that support Wi-Fi 6E, too.
Yes, it would probably help a lot, especially if most of those devices are often being used all at once. Wi-Fi 6 has something called OFDMA that allows it to chop up the available bandwidth and distribute smaller portions of it to each device as needed based on what each device is doing. For example: If you have a Wi-Fi 6 capable device that's just browsing the web and sending e-mails, such as a laptop for work, a Wi-Fi 6 router will dynamically give it significantly less bandwidth while it's doing that, because that's not something that needs a ton of speed in order for it not to slow down, whereas if you have a device such as an Apple TV 4K that is streaming 4K Netflix in the living room, a Wi-Fi 6 router will give that device lots of bandwidth which it needs for data-heavy streaming without interruption(buffering/choppiness). Basically Wi-Fi 6 is better at intelligently allowing for devices to share the network.
Nice! Most of those Wifi6 routers out there have Broadcom chips which won't be compatible with Open-WRT anyway. So hopefully a Qualcomm based Wifi 6E router with a cheaper price could soon become a reality..
I hope so. We were looking to invest in a WiFi 6 router & got stopped by minimal support for open firmware & ended up ordering an Archer C7 for half the price as a stopgap. hopefully by the time an OpenWrt 6e router comes out, we can just use the C7 as an AP to help bolster coverage for lower demand devices!
I do NOT have even 1 device with an 802.11 "AX" adapter card such as my Samsung TV, wyze and C by GE smart bulbs or even my Samsung note 9 phone. So if I get a wifi 6 router as an upgrade to my wifi 5 "will this make any difference whatsoever"?
I've been watching the CNN channel since like 2008 ever since I got my first iPod Touch that you know new stuff is coming out all the time every year new update and I learned and I learned about different software & how Apps work so by like 2009 i was able to jailbreak itt hings and then I finally got good at being able to jailbreak the ipod touchs with my laptop
What kind of WiFi capability dose a router have I your country when you order a internet service? In Denmark you get a 802.11ac but soon we will switch to 802.11ax on fiber.
Do the clients have to be able to accept 6e ? What if you bought a laptop a year or two ago. Will it be able to take advantage of the new wifi 6 or wifi 6e?
The most interesting part is how people can remember how much money you owe them, down to the penny, but can't remember something as astoundingly simple as 802.11.
@Andy Ramirez do you have lights or windows in your house or have you ever been outside. If no then your lying. If yes then you are exposed to much more radiation then any device will expose you too
It's not just about the internet. With 6E we'll be able to stream VR games running on a home PC to a VR headset at super low latency, which has nothing to do with the internet. It's all about the speed of the LAN.
It would help to add the fact that you would probably have to stand 5-10ft away from your router to take advantage of anything 6E... assuming your device can actually do WifI6 to begin with
Very interesting. But is people really measuring real usage? Are most of the users in need to such frequencies? What are the real use cases that will have huge gain and is the trade off between range and broadband a good one? I believe that the optimizations presented in wifi 6 are cool but the trending for 6gb band I can't see a huge impact in our day to day usage...
As Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 has the same bandwidth speed that is 5 GHz , will it make a difference in the upload and download speed of my laptop if I buy Wi-Fi 6 enabled laptop and router? The internet speed will be 100 Mbps for both Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6.
Holy F---, an additional frequency! That’s worth waiting for. However, what cable should we start installing for future-proofing as these super fast routers come to market? Cat 6e? Cat 7? Cat 8? Fiber optic? Blue ‘smurf’ tubing?
If it's for in-wall installation, Cat 6 is probably the best balance between future-proofing and cost efficiency. It's certified for 10Gigabit speeds at up to 180 ft(55 meters). In the US, we're only just starting to see 2 Gigabit internet speeds being offered through Comcast and Google Fiber, so CAT 6 will have plenty of room for internet speeds to grow and it'll be great for local networks if there are lots of file transfers or video-editing from a NAS or any extremely network-heavy stuff like that taking place.
Last time I looked I could find the router's but the Wifi adapters were almost impossible to find. You also did not cover the range of the AX and the Expanded router in comparison to the existing routers. This was a failure on your part.
Bring back your light led light bulb reviews. Like no one else does a good job of lights and color temperature. With work from home, lighting has never been more important. Now run with it!
Most people are still on "Wifi 5", most new devices barely support Wifi 6 and my ISP doesnt even have a Wifi 6 router option yet. Now we have Wifi 6e? Jeez, my new computer that I bought 3 weeks ago is already out of date 😞