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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by hansel_der on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:18PM (#26266118)
> but it can handle 500+ concurrent users while delivering 800 Mbps on 2.4 ghz and 1733 Mbps on 5 ghz.

i feel you, its much better than your previous ap's but please dont buy too much into the marketing.

(single dualband-ap can at best handle >200 concurrent devices, but not active users)

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by pfundstein on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:28PM (#26269145)
And those throughput figures will be shared among all the users. Not available to each and every user, as it seems to imply.
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by somehnguy on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:58PM (#26270363)
I don't think anyone in their right mind interprets that as 800mb/s or 1733mb/s to 500 users simultaneously. It's pretty clear what it means.
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by upbeat_general on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:14AM (#26271575)
What may be pretty clear to a majority of HN readers may not be so clear to the vast majority of consumers
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by dataflow on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:54PM (#26270339)
> please dont buy too much into the marketing.

I'm confused, I thought the entire premise of the comment was that they actually measured the performances of these routers instead of looking at marketing?

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by rasz on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:38AM (#26272612)
Nah, simple fact OP cited 802.11ac marketing wank numbers means nothing was measured. For starters those are PHY Speeds, bits in the medium (air), that doesnt take into account overhead. AC has 65% _best case scenario_ efficiency (only two devices practically sitting on top of each other), while N had 80%. Then you get up to 10dBm worse SNR at top speeds compared to N.
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