Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 tested

[Jan]

We tested Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 to see if there is a big difference

MyBroadband tested Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 on a Wi-Fi 6 network with a typical home setup and did not find a significant difference in speed.

Wi-Fi 6 promises faster speeds and better performance, especially when multiple devices use a network.

 

[MisterFortySomething]

What is the answer?

20% faster down, 5% faster up and less than half the latency.

Edit: changed more to less

 

[Dan C]

What is the answer?

42

 

[Willie Trombone]

Caveat: Not all infrastructure devices are created equal.

A decent WiFi 5 device might outperform a poor WiFi 6 device. Well almost certainly will...
SISO SIMO MISO MIMO etc. etc.

 

[FiestaST]

What is the answer?

69

 

[ubercal]

would have been better for qualified network engineer to do the testing #justsaying

 

[Totempole]

Latency seems to be the most significant improvement. If you don't need improved latency over WiFi then it's not worth pursuing yet.

At least that's what I took away from reading this.

 

[rh1]

42

Strange my solution was 24.

 

[Swa]

42

Mbps

 

[rh1]

What is the answer?

 

[Dan C]

Mbps

 

[Longboi]

I switched to a WiFi 6 mesh for the estate and office complex. Not much of a noticeable difference except lower latency, which was badly needed.

 

[deesef]

69

CORRECT

 

[ubercal]

wifi 6 is not about speed but about efficient use of the radio frequency bands.A by-product of efficiency is better speeds , latency , jitter etc.

 

[SauRoNZA]

More than a 100% latency difference and large percentage otherwise but doesn’t make a big difference?

Only me?

 

[ubercal]

also wifi 6 is more about trying to close the gap on ethernet (ie full duplex) , although it will always be a half duplex technology , by splitting up the frequency channels into small sub channels its trying to become "more full duplex".I guess when most devices are using wifi 6 and in highly dense environments then you will see the benefits.

 

[Sapphiron]

Once you have enough bandwidth for your transaction, latency has a much bigger impact on performance.

 

[km2]

I have a great experience with WiFi 6, so I'm always surprised when I see these relatively low numbers in articles like this. WiFi 6 and MIMO is supposed to result in combined speeds of multiple devices that is greater than what any device could achieve alone, yet on one device I can outperform the combined bandwidth in the article. I have though found the MyBroadband speed test app struggles on high bandwidth connections because it completes in just over a second, and before downloads have a chance to reach their "cruising speed".

S22 Ultra + EAP660HD:

 

[_A_]

Think it would’ve been more useful to compare the two with a gigabit fibre line

 

[Eat my shorts]

You tested wifi 6 on a 200/100 meg line.....
Like buying a Ferrari and testing the radio....