WiFi 6 Just Launched and Here’s What It Means for Your Internet

New phones will soon support WiFi 6. Wait... what were the previous 5?

WiFi 6, the next generation of wireless technology, is just now arriving in phones, laptops, and network equipment.

So how is WiFi 6 better than its previous iterations…and what were the previous iterations?

We’ve actually been using one of the previous iterations of WiFi, which can trace its roots to 1997, but back in the day it wasn’t called WiFi 1, instead it was referred to as 802.11, a number code designated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.

Ever since, 802.11 has experienced several updates and changes and with each one, a different letter was tacked onto the end (802.11 a, 802.11 b, 802.11 g, you get the point), however to make things a little simpler for consumers the latest standard of 802.11 will be referred to as WiFi 6 while all others will be retroactively renamed to follow suit, for example 802.11ac will be called WiFi 5.

Back to WiFi 6, though.

WiFi 6 is promising faster speeds, an advanced ability to deliver internet to multiple devices to ease congestion, and more.

Find out more about what this new generation of wireless tech has to offer, and what the future of WiFi holds on this episode of Elements.

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"And while Wi-Fi 6 is designed to improve the performance of Wi-Fi networks on the whole, on your own device you might experience up to four times the capacity and four times the data throughput (the amount of data moved from one point to another) that you would with older wireless network standards."

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"Mr. Hayes chaired the IEEE standards workgroup that defined the IEEE 802.11 set of wireless networking standards, better known as Wi-Fi."

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"Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax if you want to be technical about it, is the newest version of the 802.11 standard for wireless network transmissions that people commonly call Wi-Fi. It's a backwards-compatible upgrade over the previous version of the Wi-Fi standard, which is called 802.11ac."

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[sebastianelytron]

What’s the WiFi password?

Bartender: You need to buy a drink first.

Okay, I’ll have a coke.

Bartender: is Pepsi okay?

Sure. How much is that?

Bartender: $3.

There you go. So, what’s the password?

Bartender: You need to buy a drink first. No spaces, all lowercase.

[nickgehr]

*[Wifi 6 exist]*
Me: *_*missing 1 bar on my wifi signal_*
YouTube: *360p, take it or leave it*

[jkilla]

So in other words, us peasants are unaffected by this.

[BEguys]

I “E” “E” “E”

*cringes in electrical engineer*

[luuketaylor]

Yeah, I'm watching this on 802.11ac, AKA WiFive.

[danny]

I thought I was watching Linus Tech Tips

[RoguishlyHandsome]

_"Keep in mind your wifi 6 router can only be as fast as your internet service provider will allow"_
Not quite true. People have a lot of things going on on their LAN. Devices are talking to each other, they have NAS and DLNA, all sorts of services that benefits from a faster implementation. Local file sharing over wifi is a lot slower than over the wire. With better wifi, you'll get a lot more speed.

[zaidyounas]

Now i can watch memes at 10k, thanks wifi 6

[pohlondrej]

FYI, IEEE is usually pronounced "I triple E".

[orincolvin]

Nope because y buy a new phone when the old phone still works

[kfk]

Me: Dude, I got insane super speedy WiFI 6 router.
ISP: No, you're not.

[noctisb]

This whole time I thought there was just one wifi...

[MyDigitalTeacher]

*Your left Eyebrow is WiFi 6 and your right eyebrow is WiFi 5 😢*

[bertjedekat]

"IF your into 4k movies or into cloud gaming those numbers will make you drool". This is so much bs 4k movie streaming doesn't need more then 20mb down same goes with cloudgaming, latency is where it matters but it doesn't improve much on that point.

[Uneke]

The funny thing is everyone thinks “ya I need this it’s faster!!!”
Ya but the faster it is, the closer you need to be.
This will not change the fact that your router can’t exceed 1w in any direction under the fcc unless it’s point to point. Your router will still be a 30dbm and your antenna will still be a 6dbi giving a 36EiRP (1watt)

[BenjaminCronce]

Wifi6 also bring benefits to congestion due to AP density like apartments, increased noise resilience, lower latency, better signal strength for the same frequency and power.


I have read that wifi6 may be getting true full-duplex transmissions, the same as 5g, but I cannot find anything stating if this was dropped or not. And I really mean full-duplex, not just communicating on different channels or sub-channels. 5g and wifi6 share a lot of the same tech, and IEEE has a lovely presentation somewhere on how they managed full-duplex with 5g. In a nutshell, they subtract the sending signal from the receiving signal, which is very very difficult because the the transmitter is on the same device while the sender is however far away. It's like trying to ignore a loud speaker next to your ear while trying to listen to someone across the room that is whispering.

[creatorsremose]

"Woohoo it's officially *new* phone season" - showing iPhones which have not been really updated in 3 years.

[letmelick]

Bootleg Linus here🤣🤣🤣😂😂, almost tricked me in believing it was Linus.

[SciFiFactory]

Please don't call it radio waves but electromagnetic radiation.
Will make the comment section much more fun. :)

[pulsarsbeam]

You'll never catch me gaming on any sort of wifi. Wire gang.