Wi-Fi 6 vs Wi-Fi 6E: Here's the difference
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- Wi-Fi 6 is the fastest version of Wi-Fi yet, but now, Wi-Fi 6E wants to take it to a whole new level. Here's what you need to know.
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Remember, the higher the frequency, the Shorter the range.
sptrader good point to keep in mind, thanks
Thank you, my router wifi 6 have 2.5 Ghz and 5 Ghz
I guess 6e alone has the additional 6ghz band
@@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.
If I'm not mistaken, airports using radar etc are on the 5 ghz channel.
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.
Wi-Fi 6 kind of did improve penetration power but it's difficult to explain without going into technical jargon
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
@@TypicalBlox lot of 5G networks cheat on us. They use existing 4G network to provide 5G services. So called NSA (non stand alone)
That's why you get Wi-Fi 6E mesh. It solves the problem
I only just bought a wifi 6 router and now there’s wifi 6E 🤬
You are slow bro
@@kulkavin thats just WiFi 6 not 6E
@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.
LOL My fingers were itching to buy one then I saw wifi 6E and I was like "hold the f*&^&* up...."
Same lol
Thank you for the breakdown 🤜🤛
Yes, thank you.. I'm going to need an update on this subject
Thanks for sharing I love the way you broke this down
Ima just wait for Wifi 6 Definitive Edition
Not everyone understands tech jargons.
Wifi 6 GOTY 😆
Is it just me or is Ry is looking more and more like 1970’s George Lucas? Not an insult, by the way.
Thanks for the explanation.
Nicely explained.... thank ya
Love the explanation!
If I see my bartender growing extra pairs of hands I'll remind myself I had enough drinks for the day.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha. Yeah!!!
Really well explained 👍🏻
Good concise video
Wow sir this was really good
Thanks for the explanation 👍🏼✌🏽
Thanks for watching, Clifton!
Great explanation of it
Great work ❤️🔥
Thanks
That was easy to understand 👍👍
Great timing on this video as I have been shopping for a wifi 6 router. Now I will wait for the 6Es later this year! Thanks!
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.
Thank you, very informative 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
0:57 Dr Octopus , found a job during the COVID pandemic I see.
What's covid?
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
yup. better to be patient and get the better routers a little later.
@@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
Thanks!
Good video. Amazing channel
Great video 👍
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."
It's the new iPhone. Wifi 6S anyone?
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
Wifi is wireless so it will never be as reliable or fast as Ethernet.
@@kalijasin ok?
@DRIFTER it only adds 6GHz and doesn't change how the standard works. Wifi 7 is overselling
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.
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?
Great. I was thinking of getting the WiFi 6 router this year during the holidays season. Now I'll wait one more year and then get the WiFi 6E router.
And when you do that they will be announcing the WiFi 6E Pro.
Very well done, I like the visuals.
Thanks, Dave!
Thanks
Awesome video 🫡
It's the same level but enhanced
I feel like your everywhere lol 😂
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We have so much in common, Ray! We comment on the same videos. The algorithm has become omnipotent....
dude what, bro you're like on every video I see lmfao
69th like!!!!
Could have just stuck with the bartender analogy, OR the highway analogy. Makes the entire thing easier to understand.
Great vid, thanks ! Do you think the iPhone 12 could be wifi 6e, or would it be too soon and we’ll have to wait for this features another year ?
2021 iPhones will have Wi-Fi 6E.
The iPhone 12 series only has Wi-Fi 6.
i still have 802n router with the 6 MBits/s ADSL internet, wait with inpatience when such things will be available locally
Love the breakdown, much appreciated
It's me or Cnet has been doing better videos lately?😍
Shout out to the guy who designed and animated this video’s infographics ✊😎
The absoption spectrum of oxegen nice i cant wait for them to flip the switch
So what’s the 6E protocol?
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?
Do you need a good modem to support a router?
Will these cards work on older computers?
So you're telling me to wait six months, got it!!
Great explanation and illustration. You guys should take over the IRS and make them understandable now. 😉
So, can we update the firmware on our 4 antenna routers?
Does WIFI 6 come up as an option for your SSID to join? Or is this part of WIFI 5? How do you know its working?
nice
Would I need to update my router with software or does this happen automatically?
you need a new hardware
Awesome
TH-cam will still buffer
Depending on your net Bandwidth
What’s the end track? Sounds really good 😌 3:00
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
There are some good deals on mesh wifi 6e routers now.
Which 6E router manufacturer is best?
Will phones with Qualcomm 888 be able to take advantage of the 6E variant?
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.
Does netgear have a wifi 6e device?
The whole video was to say that E stand for Expanded but there was no technical explanation about what is the difference.
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.
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
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.
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.
That's the smart way to go about it. Like you said, 6GHz isn't really a gamechanger unless you already have a very congested 5GHz network.
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..
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.
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"
Its December but what internet providers will have wifi 6 available I haven't heard anything about that yet
What are you talknig about that free when you buy wifi ax and you just need to buy a over price device becuase wifi 6 like iphone se second geneation.
Will there be wifi 6e mesh hardware out at end this yr or do have wait til 2021
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.
Asus has a Wi-Fi 6E router launching on January 29th.
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.
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@@AIRRAZOR44 It aged fine.
I have a gig connection and wifi 6 its about 30ft away from me in a block house works great speeds are incredible
Cool I'm a buy one 💯💯👍
Large date explained in an easy way.. 👌👌
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!
@@chinarut what’s the big deal about that wrt firmware ??!
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.
That does sound like a pretty awesome router, hopefully you can find it one day
Is 6GHz worth it?
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 think this was an offer simplification of the concepts
like what concepts were oversimplified or missed? have a different video to watch?
Cool, Would the range be on a 6ghz transmission? And would be more susceptible to barriers
The range would be lower than 5ghz and it will be much more susceptible to obstruction, that’s just the nature of higher frequencies!
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
My future self playing on my future ps5 will be fairly happy.
I got a WiFi 6 modem/router like a couple months ago though.... 😂😭
I'm confused as we already had Tri-Band routers before the expanded use of 6GHz, I've been out the game for awhile someone please explain?
Bet most people’s internet isn’t fast enough to notice a difference from even WiFi 5
But most of those devices would still benefit from the MU-MIMO and Beam-forming technologies to get a "wired" experience.
@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.
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.
But IPad air4 supports only WIFI6 but in specs page it shows can handle both 2.5&5Ghz!
Can someone clarify me does it has 6e ?
So b,g,n,ac,ax were all too confusing extensions. So instead they decided on 6....E - I'll expect 6D, 6N, 6AC, 6AX in a few years, again.
SSDD
Next it will be 7
Remember on a WiFi 6e router, you need to have 6e devices to see WiFi 6 SSIDs.
What about Wifi 6 tri-band?
is wifi 6 suitable for a smart home with 30 devices?
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.
I haven't even got a wifi 6 router and there's already a new one lol
Good thing you waited. The first Wi-Fi 6E router launches on January 29th. 😁
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...
wow wifi 6 6e but my internet speed just 5Mbps
yeah your current router will do just fine :)
WiFi 5 was 802.11ac, but why was there an old 802.11g (WiFi 3) Linksys router featured as WiFi 5?
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 have wifi 6 router , I don't have a phone Or computer that support wifi 6 router , can I solve this issue by using a wifi extender ??
Can I use WiFi 6 with docsis 3.0 or 3.1 modem? Thanks
Why not backward acitivty to everthing only if you do wifi ax setting that may have bugs on things.
I have a couple of Google Wi-Fi units that I bought in 2018. And no devices that support Wi-Fi 6 yet.
Google WiFi is still WiFi 5 they haven’t upgraded them. And there are a lot of devices with WiFi 6. Especially phones and mid-top end laptops
Wifi 6 devices are growing. They are still in the minority but increasing. Like rangergun said, many smartphones now come with Wifi 6. Newer laptops have Intel 200 AX wifi cards in them and you can upgrade existing wifi cards on older hardware like I have. So while they are in the minority, their rate of introduction is increasing now that Wifi 6 routers are out. The question might be will there be many Wifi 6E devices in 2021. IoT devices I think will remain mostly 2.4Ghz unfortunately unless they are video streaming IoT devices like Google and Alexa display smart devices.
Idk I think imma stick with WiFi 6, considering how 6E is a new technology, plus I dont think I can take advantage of the 6GHZ port anyways
If I upgrade to a WiFi 6 or 6e router, but all of my client devices are only AC or N and only 2.4GHz - can the WiFI 6 router still talk to them at the same time? Or do the endpoints themselves all have to support WiFi 6 to get any of the concurrently benefits you describe?
Those devices will all still work on the Wi-Fi 6 router. Your 802.11ac devices should definitely be using 5GHz though, that's the only band that 802.11ac works on. If you're only using the 2.4GHz band for them, they're dropping down to 802.11n to do that and you're not actually getting the benefits of 802.11ac on the devices that support it. 802.11ac actually includes beamforming as standard(rather than optional like it was in 802.11n) in order to combat the reduced range of 5GHz.
But if you're still only using 2.4GHz because you want the extra range for all of your devices, then you'll be pleased to know that Wi-Fi 6 works on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz and brings along all of the improvements that it's made even when you're only using 2.4GHz. It's the first time that 2.4GHz Wi-Fi has actually been improved since 2009 when 802.11n was finalized. You would still need a Wi-Fi 6 capable device to get the benefits, but it's pretty cool that they're still improving 2.4GHz for people who prefer their Wi-Fi to have maximum range.
I know in order to use 5ghz you need devices that support it. Is that the same with 6ghz? If so what devices currently even support that? I haven't heard of any.
Any device that says it has Wi-Fi 6E will support the 6GHz band. There are probably not too many devices that do support it at the moment, but it will probably be the minimum standard going forward in 2021.