Obviously the latest Wi-fi standards offers faster data transfer speeds. When you use your device with a Wi-fi router the maximum potential speeds should be up to 40%  higher with Wi-fi 6 compared to the previous Wi-fi 5.

Wi-fi 6 reach this performance through more efficient data encoding, with a higher throughput result. Basically more data is in the same radio waves. Those chips what was used for encode and decode these signals are more and more powerful and they can handle the extra work.

The new standard of Wi-fi even increases the speeds on 2.4GHz networks. While the industry use 5GHz Wi-fi for less interference, the 2.4GHz is still has a better performance at penetrating solid objects.

Facts about Wi-fi 6 what you should know

1. Solution for Longer Battery Life

The new TWT (target wake time) feature means that your device what is enabled to use Wi-Fi should have longer battery life.

When the two point is communicating (the access point connecting to a device), it can give the information about the device’s requirement. It can tell the device exactly when to put its Wi-Fi radio to sleep mode and when to start to use it to receive the next transmission. This will save power because the Wi-Fi radio can stay more time in a sleep mode. And this is the consequence: more sleep mode means longer battery life.

2. It has better performance in busy or crowded places

Wi-Fi usually get bogged down when the user is in a crowded place with a lots of other Wi-Fi enabled devices users. These facilities usually are airports, hotels, stadiums, malls or even a big office can be affected. In these places the user probably experiencing slow Wi-Fi.

For these situations the new Wi-Fi 6 is a good solution as its new technologies are helping on this. In congested areas where a lots of connected devices are under use, the Wi-Fi 6 can results at least four times faster average speed.

This not only apply to busy public places, it can be performing like that even in your home where you connect lots of devices to Wi-Fi.

3. Wi-Fi 6 fights against congestion

An average user doesn’t really need to know too much details about it.  The main thing is that Wi-Fi 6 access point will work better with a Wi-Fi 6 device. But we give you some light in the tunnel about this:

Wi-Fi 6 has a feature what can divide the wireless channel into a large number of subchannels. All these subchannels are able to carry data intended for different devices. Thanks to this achieved feature the Wi-Fi access point is able to communicate to more devices at once.

Some advice when you are about to buy a new device

When you are planning to buy a new device, you don’t have to hunting for the information about the Wi-Fi spec, as the manufacturer can say that the device has Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 5. You do not have to memorize those codes what we mentioned already in this article.

For a new device the manufacturers start to use a sign ‘Wi-Fi 6 Certified’ as a logo on devices. These devices have gone through the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification process.

The previously used ‘Wi-Fi Certified’ logo was not enough specific, as it didn’t show you what generation of Wi-Fi can be used with the product.

What is the timing, when can you get it?

Some routers probably already shows the sign of ‘802.11ax technology’, but Wi-Fi 6 is still not finalized. At the moment there is no any Wi-Fi 6 client devices available yet.

The standard was finalized in 2019 by the Wi-Fi Alliance, and Wi-Fi 6 enabled hardware was released in 2019-2020.

For the future the new devices (smartphones, laptops, tablets and all Wi-Fi enabled devices) will just come out with this new technology.

Since these technologies always under development we have to mention that Wi-Fi 6E also come out. This can serve 6 GHz rather than the typical 2.4 GHz or the 5 GHz. For sure the Wi-Fi 6E hardware will arrive only after the Wi-Fi 6 hardware.

We do hope that this information helps you to better understanding what is going on with Wi-Fi developments.