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Wi-Fi 6E Explained: What It Could Mean for iPhone 13 and Beyond
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you cannot afford to rent it or even buy an 500-600$ router that you will use it for a decade probably?! but you buy an iphone/smartphone for the same price or even higher that you use it for 2-3-4 max 5 years
So if you use it daily think about it as an investment
What I don’t get is WiFi 6 and 6e are to make the WiFi network better. They often use “smart” homes & “smart” devices as a reason to update. I have the Orbi WiFi 6 mesh system and to use WiFi 6 you have to use the “WPA3” security protocol. But most of my smart devices like sonoff & Shelly are not WPA3 compatible. So I can’t actually use WiFi 6. Am I getting this wrong?
The interviewee sounded very marketing-oriented rather than technical. Also gave a rather tortured description of the sides of a cube - all four sides - “and I have similar people above and below me kind of on all four sides”. No, you’re describing a cube, it has 6 sides in total, not 4+4. Or you’re in the middle cube of a 3x3 matrix, with 26 adjacent cubes. This is not rocket science. Also, if you had an apartment that was immediately surrounded on all six sides, it wouldn’t have any external windows or any door to get in or out. I’ve never seen a real-world apartment like that. Would have been better to leave it at “nearby neighbors in all directions”, and the audience would have understood.
Ya' know, the lunatics in command of all things IT these days, largely one-dimensional dopes who feel their wealth gives them the right to tell me what I should know (aka, their version of any event and their version only) and how I should live, have this "common vision of connecting everyone in everything, everywhere." They forgot to ask me what I want and it is not their "vision." I am an individual. My connection is to my family and others I love. I have no desire to be connected (as are marionettes--coincidence?) to any global community. I want my privacy and not Tim Cook's world where anyone having their latte at Starbucks can know everything about my DNA simply by looking at their wristwatch. Take your sterile, unthinking world view and shove it.
Which brand/model ?I have wi-fi 6 router and makes a super big difference in everything. I downgrade my wi-fi speed from 1bps to 200mps and save $60 a month. Everything is still smooth and fast in 4K streaming videos and 4K channel programming. No buffering even at this slow speed! Amazing!
People need to educate themselves more on how Wifi6 works. It's not as simple as just upgrading the router to Wifi6/E.
1) You won't get much of a speed boost unless you upgrade your ISP plan to at least 1gbps speed.
2) To get maximum Wifi6 benefits your router needs to have a 160Mhz channel bandwidth feature. Most (if not all) mesh system do not offer this feature.
3) To get maximum Wifi6 speeds your product (Mac/PC/iPhone) needs to be a 4X4 client rather than a 2X2 client.
4) When using a Wifi6 client on the 160Mhz channel bandwidth your range is shortened a great deal. Perhaps best used if you're a gamer and have the router sitting right next to your 160Mhz Wifi6 PC.
In short Wifi6 performance will range depending on the client, router and the ISP.
1) You won't get much of a speed boost unless you upgrade your ISP plan to at least 1gbps speed.
2) To get maximum Wifi6 benefits your router needs to have a 160Mhz channel bandwidth feature. Most (if not all) mesh system do not offer this feature.
3) To get maximum Wifi6 speeds your product (Mac/PC/iPhone) needs to be a 4X4 client rather than a 2X2 client.
4) When using a Wifi6 client on the 160Mhz channel bandwidth your range is shortened a great deal. Perhaps best used if you're a gamer and have the router sitting right next to your 160Mhz Wifi6 PC.
In short Wifi6 performance will range depending on the client, router and the ISP.
That's odd, just yesterday a colleague of mine said it was "invented in the Netherlands."🤔
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I would go with access points (AP) but use a different product for the routing. I have a pfSense router/firewall appliance and am using LinkSys Velops (pre WiFi 6) more or less in bridge mode. I am thinking about ditching the Velops in favor of UniFi or EnGenius APs. If you want to stay up-to-date, maybe replacing just your AP or APs (plural) is less expensive than replacing a router with built in WiFi capability. Separating the two functionalities (routing/firewalling and wireless LAN switching) may also be the more secure approach.
Sometimes I wonder how connected we want to be, or all ready are.
I mean, you can only stream so much HD content, or lossless audio. And not everyone is some precision surgeon who needs super low latency to do remote surgery, etc.
And how much do I need to know what temperature the cabinets are in my house, or that the milk expires in 3 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds?
It would sometimes seem like we're eventually building the A380 that no one can really use. People can only produce and consume so much data in a given time frame.
It all seems like it's becoming a bit intrusive....
I mean, you can only stream so much HD content, or lossless audio. And not everyone is some precision surgeon who needs super low latency to do remote surgery, etc.
And how much do I need to know what temperature the cabinets are in my house, or that the milk expires in 3 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds?
It would sometimes seem like we're eventually building the A380 that no one can really use. People can only produce and consume so much data in a given time frame.
It all seems like it's becoming a bit intrusive....
I assumed they decided to follow the naming convention of Ethernet cables. Cat 5, 5e, 6, 6e, etc.
“We made WiFi naming simpler by removing the random letters”
“Let’s add the random letters onto the end to confuse people again.”
Ok sure bud.
Here’s a tip for the future: if you want to understand something new and whether it’s worthwhile, don’t go to the head of marketing for the product. I mean, that’s like journalism 101.
“Let’s add the random letters onto the end to confuse people again.”
Ok sure bud.
Here’s a tip for the future: if you want to understand something new and whether it’s worthwhile, don’t go to the head of marketing for the product. I mean, that’s like journalism 101.
I moved to my apartment about 3 years ago, bought a lot of **Ubiquiti stuff, stable as a rock for about 2.5 years, then Ubiquiti reversed a firmware update, after this downgrade I had lots of *issues with my Ubiquiti gear, I solved it a few weeks ago by rolling back firmware to versions from a year ago, it's back to normal, how such a company could mess up firmware like that is beyond me.
* Frequently Fiber disconnects
Frequent device disconnects
Frequent adoption failures after device disconnecting.
Unstable network
**USG 3p
USW 8 60 Watt
USW 8 150 Watt POE SFP
2 X USW Flex Mini
UAP AC Pro
Cloud Key
Gb Fiber ISP connection.
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Would have been better to name a new minor version Wifi 6.1
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Future proofing the iPhone is very welcome.
I was glad when the WiFi specs were renamed to use numbers - I lost track after the N spec. I just hope that adding ‘e’ isn’t the sign of more naming confusion to come.
Now if we could just get USB naming straightened out…
I was glad when the WiFi specs were renamed to use numbers - I lost track after the N spec. I just hope that adding ‘e’ isn’t the sign of more naming confusion to come.
Now if we could just get USB naming straightened out…
