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Am I Connected to WiFi 6?
I have a dumb question, how do you tell if you’re connected to WiFi 6 with an iPhone 12 or any device? I recently installed and set up a RBK753. Both AX bands are enabled and I set the CTS values to ...
WiFi 6 (802.11ax) would be just the mode. Technically WiFi 6 is "just" a superset of the earlier standards - it's not something you connect to.
Netgear has chosen to show a small subset of the information on the consumer systems, for the average user it's not of a particular interest. For the Netgear SMB wireless access points (WAC5xx and WAC6xx), the connection mode can be accessed from the Insight management.
Alternate way to see the mode used would be checking the wireless client. Windows 10 or MacOS have this information visible. Unfortunately, iOS and Android 11 (talking of the "real" one as on a current Pixel phone) doesn't show this information to the user. Another possible reason for iOS could be the OS restrictive nature, so it might be not accessible in any easy manner.