Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices
by Laforet on Thursday February 25, 2021 @09:18PM
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Wifi 6 feels like the transition from 802.11b to 11g all over again i.e. having a single b-only device will cause your entire network to fall back to 11Mbps for compatibility. At least back then those devices were either quickly replaced or at least had upgradable wifi cards, and we many more monolithic phones and IoT devices to deal with.
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Re:Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices
by bcrl on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:06PM
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802.11b to 802.11g was not much of a transition, just higher speeds without any real protocol improvements. Back then when I was using long distance (~4 km rural wireless hops -- was too far for DSL) 802.11g links, they were atrociously unreliable. It wasn't until 802.11n gear finally came out is when wireless finally began to work reasonably well for me. MIMO meant that reflections and other oddities were better compensated for. Moore's law strikes again - more transistors, more math, better performance!