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Orbi mesh system help
ok so i new to the mesh system i been seeing alot of on the internet so tryng to get much info and knowledge about the system also i read that some people having issues with them connecting to inte...
If you have wifi 6 (802.11ax) devices or you plan to add such devices in your home then go for wifi 6 system, otherwise a wifi 5 (802.11ac) will be good enough.
Good luck,
Good luck,
ok only wifi6 is my mom galaxy phone
bigmoe80 wrote:
ok only wifi6 is my mom galaxy phone
I am in the same situation. Precisely one WiFi device in the house supports 802.11ax (iPhone). Everything else was purchased and installed before 802.11ax became common. Even if their software gets updated (slim chance for most of the IoT devices), the radio chips "are what they are". There also are reports that enabling WPA3 (or even the ax capability) causes some devices to fail. (I am not certain that I understand the point of combination WPA2/WPA3 security.).
I have yet to read discussions of how 802.11ax works in the real world where the majority of devices do not support it. Does that lone iPhone get faster speed in practice? Does it somehow magically reduce network congestion?
On the flip side, it may soon become difficult to purchase 802.11ac systems as 802.11ax systems become "the standard".
- Speed is quite not the important factor, on the other hand, battery consumption improvements as well as capacity of the AP to handle more devices are really good reasons to move to wifi 6, I think.
ok i notice on some of the routers or mesh systems it says a internet plan of this speed works with this system so what does that mean
- All Orbi systems can basically handle same internet speeds up to 1 gbps, only AX routers support wan port aggregation and hence more than 1 gbps.
The main difference between the different existing Orbi packages is the backhaul capacity (AX1200, AX4800, AX6000……), which impacts how many users can download, stream, …. at hight speeds at the same time.
If you don’t have such requirements (multiple users needing high speeds at exactly the same time) then any backhaul capacity should do.
ekhalil wrote:
Speed is quite not the important factor, on the other hand, battery consumption improvements as well as capacity of the AP to handle more devices are really good reasons to move to wifi 6, I think.Certainly an awkward time to be investing in WiFi technology. Would be interesting to see how much more battery life a typical smartphone or laptop gets in 802.11ax mode rather than 802.11ac mode when it is the only 802.11ax device on the network. The security cameras that I use offer WiFi models, and thus far none of them support 802.11ax. Their solution to batter issues appears to be bundling a solar charging panel with the camera. My guess is that they will move to 802.11ax when the technology company in Taiwan that makes their SoC offers that feature and there is not a significant cost difference over 802.11ac.
