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What Does “6-Stream WiFi Router” Mean?
I want a WiFi router that can broadcast on at least 4 SSIDs. The lingo is a bit confusing. Does “6-Stream” in the Nighthawk® RAX50 AX6 6-Stream AX5400 WiFi Router mean it can have 6 SSIDs? https://...
Stream means how many MIMO antennas are running 2.4 and 5Ghz at the same time. 6x6 would be what this means here.
The most you'll ever see out of a dual band is two SSID broadcasts. Tri band router you can get 3 SSID broadcasts. Broadcasts is the SSID name for the 2.4 and 5Ghz radio frequencies. Most of the time Smart Connect is a feature that combines the 2.4 and 5Ghz SSID names into one SSID Name broadcast for both 2.4 and 5Ghz frequencies.
I’m a retired senior who lives in a large house with 10 units. Some of my very senior housemates are not very IT savvy so I’m providing free WiFi service to all (and some Internet usage instruction) in hopes they find the access to knowledge and entertainment enjoyable.
The connected devices will be a mixture of smartphones, tablets, laptops and smart TVs — probably a total of fewer than 15 devices on the Guest SSIDs.
I need to retain one smart (2.4 & 5G) SSID for myself and have offered the Guest 2.4G and 5G SSIDs to everyone else using a single password.
Based on what you all have said, I guess I’ll plan to leave everyone else on the Guest 2.4G and 5G password protected SSIDs.
Thanks for the counsel.
My setup: Spectrum broadband > Spectrum DocSis 3.1 eMTA EU2251 Voice Modem > Netgear RAX50 AX5400v2
The connected devices will be a mixture of smartphones, tablets, laptops and smart TVs — probably a total of fewer than 15 devices on the Guest SSIDs.
I need to retain one smart (2.4 & 5G) SSID for myself and have offered the Guest 2.4G and 5G SSIDs to everyone else using a single password.
Based on what you all have said, I guess I’ll plan to leave everyone else on the Guest 2.4G and 5G password protected SSIDs.
Thanks for the counsel.
My setup: Spectrum broadband > Spectrum DocSis 3.1 eMTA EU2251 Voice Modem > Netgear RAX50 AX5400v2
cyberbiker wrote:
I’m a retired senior who lives in a large house with 10 units. Some of my very senior housemates are not very IT savvy so I’m providing free WiFi service to all (and some Internet usage instruction) in hopes they find the access to knowledge and entertainment enjoyable.
The connected devices will be a mixture of smartphones, tablets, laptops and smart TVs — probably a total of fewer than 15 devices on the Guest SSIDs.
I need to retain one smart (2.4 & 5G) SSID for myself and have offered the Guest 2.4G and 5G SSIDs to everyone else using a single password.
Based on what you all have said, I guess I’ll plan to leave everyone else on the Guest 2.4G and 5G password protected SSIDs.
Thanks for the counsel.
My setup: Spectrum broadband > Spectrum DocSis 3.1 eMTA EU2251 Voice Modem > Netgear RAX50 AX5400v2
Something to think about, for a modest investment you could purchase a refurbished Wi-Fi router from Amazon and configure it as a wired access point. You would need an Ethernet cable between the RAX50 and several feet of space (separation to avoid Wi-Fi interference) to the access point. This would give you a couple of more SSID's and Ethernet ports.