If 2019 is the new year for Wi-Fi 6 commercial use, then 2020 is undoubtedly the year that Wi-Fi 6 begins to gradually reach consumers.
While still in the midst of a new coronavirus epidemic, several Wi-Fi 6-enabled routers and terminals have been officially released this month.
Now, Huawei, Xiaomi, TP-LINK, Asus, and Netware have all released their own Wi-Fi 6 wireless routers, which are faster, support more concurrent devices, have lower latency, and consume less power than the most popular Wi-Fi 5 now.
The Wi-Fi6 uses the same OFDMA technology as Huawei 5G, combined with 1024-QAM high-order modulation to support up to 160MHz bandwidth and is nearly three times faster than Wi-Fi5.
Intelligent frequency sharing technology, which can support more devices concurrently and increase the capacity of access devices by 4 times. Multiple concurrency of access devices reduces queuing, interferes with shading active avoidance, and reduces latency by two-thirds.
Supports on-demand wake-up function when the terminal device is in standby, allowing the terminal to reduce power consumption by 30%.
We can liken the scenario of a router transmitting to a device to a convoy, which under Wi-Fi 5 standards can only be dispatched to one customer at the same moment of departure. Even if there are empty vehicles, they will be issued as usual, and if one of them breaks down (is disturbed), the entire fleet will not be issued.
Under the Wi-Fi 6 standard, a fleet of vehicles departing at the same time can form a team of at least 26 adjacent vehicles, each team can be sent to a different customer, and if a vehicle fails (is disturbed) only the team it is in will be affected.
When we are at home, we often search for our neighbors' Wi-Fi signals, which can interfere with our own Wi-Fi transmission.
And Wi-Fi 6 uses interference shading technology to mark frames of neighbor network signals coming through the wall so that the user's router can ignore them. Wi-Fi signals between neighbors can transmit data simultaneously on the same channel without interfering with each other, reducing the interference rate by 30%.
The difference in power consumption between Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 5 is significant, with Wi-Fi 6 negotiating the timing of Wi-Fi wake-ups with the terminal to wake up on-demand and no power consumption at other times of sleep.
Whereas Wi-Fi 5 can only communicate with one device at a time, all terminals connected to the same route are either in a transmission state or in a waiting state, and are disordered, with the waiting state still requiring power consumption.
Overall, Wi-Fi 6 routers are the trend, with several products priced below $300, so if your phone or laptop supports Wi-Fi 6 it's a good idea to consider.
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