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Orbi with wifi 6
Has anyone seen the tech specs on the newly announced Orbi?
I hope the AC speeds to the units will be faster than the 867MB (as well as the faster backhaul)
Could be later this year or next.
Thanks.
Might be stating the obvious here but assume I would be an idiot to purcahse the currently available ORBI? Wifi 6 is worth holding out for right? Esp with the arrival of 5G...
Up to you if your want to be an early adoptor. WIFI 6 will depend on client side HW support. Only a few devices like Samsung phones are supportive of AX. 5G is a cell phone service connection, not wifi or wifi 6. As time goes on, more devices will be forthcoming that support AX. When that happens, only the Mfrs know. If you want to try AX, give NGs RAX routers a review as they are currently out on the market to see if AX is something to look more into.
Thanks. Yes I may do that.
I am currently upgrading my home network and want to future proof it as much as possible. So although I wont initally be able to connect many devices via Wifi 6 - I assume it will be backward compatible with older devices so probably worth holding out for.
I imagine that in the next few years 5G will take off and replace alot of the fibre connections (at least the ones over copper). So I want to make sure my internal wifi network can handle the data transmission rates we will get with 5G. Have that all established and working (even if my devices cannot make use of it). So that when 5G is available I can simply plug in a 5G modem without needing to upgrade my internal network to cope with the added speeds 5G will give.
So given the above - I reckon I should hold out for ORBI Wifi 6....thanks for your help.
- Here is a portion of what I found from tech radar regarding WiFi 6 and routers curt on the market before WiFi 6 is finalized....”According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, the non-profit overseer of the Wi-Fi world, Wi-Fi 6 will be out ‘later in 2019’. By all accounts, that will most likely be towards the very end of the year (assuming no serious slippage is encountered). A certification programme was announced back in January to ensure that Wi-Fi 6 labelled devices meet the relevant specified standards, and this scheme is expected to start very soon, in the third quarter of 2019.
At this point, you might be thinking "wait a minute: aren’t there already Wi-Fi 6 routers out there (albeit most of them are still labelled 802.11ax)?"
And you’d be right – there are indeed, but with caveats. Some routers that support Wi-Fi 6 that are already on shelves include the Netgear Nighthawk AX8 and AX4, TP-Link’s Archer AX6000, and the Asus RT-AX88U (indeed Asus even has a Wi-Fi 6-toting mesh router offering which is imminent).
However, remember that these early devices are based on the draft standard of Wi-Fi 6, which isn’t yet finalized (and won’t be till later in the year). So bear in mind that these routers may miss out on some features that fully certified Wi-Fi 6 devices are required to carry, depending on whether the spec that manufacturers must adhere to is changed much between now and the official launch of the new standard.
From what we’ve heard, any potential differences will be minor. Still, we won’t know specifics until the Wi-Fi 6 is officially launched.
Furthermore, even if you do own a router that supports (draft) Wi-Fi 6, you’ll also need Wi-Fi 6 compatible client devices on the other end of the connection to benefit from the new Wi-Fi standard. Early adopting pieces of hardware are even thinner on the ground, at least at the moment, one example being Samsung’s Galaxy S10 smartphone.” Hope this helps. Fair point.
But might as well have the tech in place - even if you arent using it. So that when wifi-6 becomes the norm you have it all there waiting to go I guess?
From what I read wifi-6 is going to be massive in turns of throughput?
- Throughput will benefit from WIFI 6 but that was not the true goal for it from what I have read. It is supposed to create a more stable WiFi connection in areas where WiFi channels are very congested. So faster throughput appears to be a byproduct of WIFI 6 but not it’s true intent.