5G has been touted was a household name, but on the subject of its new WiFi technology standard --Wi-Fi 6 but may have a better economic and technical prospects, WiFi 6, also known as 802.11ax, better than in the past WiFi technology , 5G benchmarking sorted faster, 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 5G WiFi 6 have significant cost advantages and security attributes (data and equipment locally), but for individual users, whether it is worth it to pay for the WiFi 6?
WiFi 6 whether suitable for individual users WiFi 6 is suitable for individual users
buy a router WiFi6 inexpensive, early in the home, office and commercial environments experience 5G speed, it sounds good, but there are many router vendors already in the back to school season, "grab fresh "shelves WiFi6 router, the future presumably most router vendors will join the WiFi 6 months of the campaign trail in the router, but for ordinary consumers now buy WiFi 6 router worth it?
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 6 Wi-Fi router performance
any device device is connected to Wi-Fi router 6, if not equipped with the latest 11ax chip, they can not play the Wi-Fi performance advantages 6, and as you pay an additional fee WiFi6 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.
6 high-speed Wi-Fi bandwidth is faster, but only if you connect more than 50 devices
Wi-Fi loans is expected to reach 6 speed of 10,000 Mbps (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, WiFi high-bandwidth 6 can not help you any. But WiFi high-bandwidth 6 is useful for multi-user multi-device environment, such as playing a media 4K high-definition video streaming, you only need 20 Mbps of bandwidth, so even if there are four TVs in your home while playing 4K motion, you only need to 80Mbps, the WiFi 5 will be able to meet, but if the number of users connected to your application scenarios of up to 50 people, then the bandwidth advantage WiFi6 manifested. But WiFi 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.
For home users and small businesses WiFi, WiFi 6 until costs come down, and more devices compatible 11ax chip, may suspend the procurement WiFi 6 router. Currently WiFi5 Router can be enhanced signal coverage and Wi-Fi connectivity system 5 through the mesh (the Mesh) or the like.
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