Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices

Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by gumby on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:46PM (#26268060)

I upgraded to a Wifi 6* router last month. We have Gb service. I could never get more than a few hundred Mbps from any of my devices on the 5 GHz bands but with ax I can get over 800 Mbps. I only have two ax devices and their performance is startlingly different (one gets about 400 Mbps but the other gets over 800).

I do wonder how much of the issue is channel contention from my neighbors and how much is actual improvement.

* Not mentioning brands because I don't want to look like I'm shilling. Anyway I only had a couple of dozen clients to test with, and only two (before and after) routers.

Edit: I had "K" and "G" where I should have had "Mbs" -- thanks jeffbee and gratin for pointing these typos out.

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by graton on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:12PM (#26268398)

> but with ax I can get over 800 Gbps

Can I assume you meant 800 Mbps?

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by gumby on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:44PM (#26268724)

Thanks, an absurd typo; fixed.

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by jeffbee on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:20PM (#26268481)

You were getting a few hundred kbps per device on what kind of network? That's not even enough for CD-quality digital audio. That wouldn't have been acceptable performance even in the 1990s before 802.11.

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by gumby on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:44PM (#26268719)

Thanks, an absurd typo; fixed.

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by hifly on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:43PM (#26281580)

Most likely you upgraded to an ap with working dfs detection and it just hopped on a better channel...

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by the-dude on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:10PM (#26268385)

That is amazing.

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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices by gumby on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:45PM (#26268739)

Two typos made it extraordinarily amazing; if you were politely referring to those: I edited the post.

However, even with the correct units I am astonished and gratified with the improvement.

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