5G has been touted was a household name, but on the subject of its new Wi-Fi technology standard - Wi-Fi 6 but may have a better economic outlook and technology, Wi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax, over the past Wi- Fi technology better, faster sorted 5G benchmarking, better connectivity, better coverage and stability, and can support more users, but also lower than the cost of the base station 5G. In the commercial scene factories, warehouses, docks, etc., compared to 6 5G Wi-Fi has a significant cost advantage and security attributes (data and equipment locally), but for individual users, whether it is worthwhile to pay for Wi-Fi 6 it ?
Buy a router inexpensive Wi-Fi6 advance in home, office and commercial environments experience 5G speed, it sounds good, but there are many router vendors already in the back to school season, "prerelease" rackmount Wi-Fi6 router , presumably most router vendors will join the Wi-Fi 6 months of the campaign trail in the router, but for ordinary consumers now buy a Wi-Fi 6 router worthy of the future?
Amazon's price monitoring from the point of view, Wi-Fi 6 router average price than the same Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) higher than the router 100 to $ 150. Although Wi-Fi 6 may help solve part of the problem of wireless networks in public places airports, stadiums and public transport stations (such as signal coverage, connection stability, etc.), but it will not bring visible for home users the benefits of. For the following reasons:
Most existing mobile devices can not play Wi-Fi 6 router performance
Any device connected to the device 6 Wi-Fi router, if not equipped with the latest 11ax chip, they can not play the Wi-Fi performance advantage of 6, while the cost you pay for Wi-Fi6 additional technology, the basic will boondoggle . And a variety of streaming media devices, mobile phones, tablet PCs, wireless headsets, laptops, printers, speakers, and other intelligent smart home technology, equipped 11ax Wi-Fi 6 chip also requires a long difficult period of popularity /. Currently, only a few 11ax equipment on the market, but is expected shipments of years 11ax support future products will rapidly enlarge.
Wi-Fi 6 faster and higher bandwidth, but only if you connect more than 50 devices
Wi-Fi bandwidth of 6 Mbps is expected to reach speeds of 10,000 (10GB / s, Gigabit network speed). It sounds really fast, but you have to figure out, but this speed LAN speed, and you use a mobile phone or laptop speed, the main bottleneck is the speed of the WAN cloud streaming media content or service providers, in other words, in addition to data exchange within the LAN for Internet applications, Wi-Fi high-bandwidth 6 can not help you any. But Wi-Fi high-bandwidth 6 is useful for multi-user multi-device environment, such as playing a streaming 4K high-definition video, you only need 20 Mbps of bandwidth, so even if there are four TVs in your home while playing 4K movement, only 80Mbps, the Wi-Fi 5 will be able to meet, but if the number of users connected to your application scenarios of up to 50 people, then the Wi-Fi bandwidth advantage 6 manifested. But Wi-Fi bandwidth data is only a theoretical value of 6, for home users, in order to get close to the theoretical value of the network speed, it must be very close to the router, about 5 meters, and the middle can not have walls or furniture blocking .
Universal need 3 years or more
Wi-Fi 6 is a new technology for mobile phones or other equipment companies, current procurement cost is very high. Moreover, the increased cost and almost no significant benefit for home users, which may lead to the popularity of Wi-Fi 6 chips slow down. IDC research suggests, Wi-Fi 6 mainstream adoption will be completed before 2023, the popular stage up to three years.
Wi-Fi for home users and small businesses, before the Wi-Fi 6 lower costs, and more devices compatible 11ax chip, may suspend the procurement Wi-Fi 6 router. Wi-Fi router current user 5 can be enhanced signal coverage and Wi-Fi connectivity system 5 through the mesh (the Mesh) or the like.
From: IT network manager of: Zhang Lin