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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by kijin on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:42AM (#21967073)
Routers in most homes and offices have the power budget and physical space to support multiple frequencies and protocols, so there's not much reason to give up backward compatibility unless you want a router that is either very small or very cheap. Of course the 2.4GHz band is crowded, but it won't be so bad anymore when most bandwidth-heavy devices have moved on to higher frequencies.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by CaptainMarvel on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:40AM (#21967314)
1. Force devices to use 5 GHz, and 2. Prevent use of inefficient older protocols which reduce overall bandwidth
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by cesarb on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:13AM (#21969221)
> Force devices to use 5 GHz

You can force devices to use 5 GHz by having different ESSIDs for the 2.4 GHz network and the 5 GHz network. A device configured to use the home-5g network won't try to connect to the home-2g4 network, and vice versa.

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by CaptainMarvel on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:26AM (#21989116)
I meant people, force people to use the 5 GHz band in an easy hassle-free way.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by kijin on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:12AM (#21967466)
Tell that to my fridge, which only supports 2.4GHz and which I have no plan to replace in the next 10 years.

Fortunately, the fact that some devices continue to use 2.4GHz does not reduce the bandwidth I have on my other network that is 5GHz. So I have no incentive to disable 2.4GHz anytime in the next 10 years, either.

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by Krasnol on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:34AM (#21967573)
What are you using the internet access on your fridge for?
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by kijin on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:48AM (#21968408)
According to the manufacturer, it sends diagnostic information and receives firmware updates. I'm not entirely sure that it's not snitching on my eating habits at the same time, though.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by cesarb on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:11AM (#21969206)
> According to the manufacturer, [...] receives firmware updates.

Why would a fridge, which should do nothing more than turning the compressor on and off according to its inside temperature, need firmware updates?

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz by Krasnol on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:24PM (#21970961)
I wonder how nobody takes this "feature" as negative. My first thought was: "My fridge doesn't need firmware updates and it does what it's supposed to do. What's wrong with this one?"
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