Have you already upgraded your aging wireless g/n router
with wifi ac (5th generation of wifi technology) router lately? If you
haven’t done it yet then you’re lucky since it is now coming new wifi 6 (6th
generation of wifi technology) with boosting wifi speeds up to 6,000Mbps dual
band. See also best
home mesh wifi systems.
Netgear, Asus and TP-link have come into the market with
this wifi 6 technology when others are still competing with their wireless ac
products.
What this wifi 6 does
Wifi 6 technology is the next generation of 6th G
wireless technology with blazing wifi speeds of up to 4.8Gbps @5GHz band and
blazing speeds of up to 1.2Gbps @2.4Ghz band, or as known as ax6000 since the
total bandwidth speed is up to 6,000Mbps concurrently.
Wifi Comparison
To have a brief knowledge what this wifi 6 is compared with
the previous wifi technology take a look at the following wifi 6 chart.
See that wifi 6 provides faster speed, increase network capacity,
more devices to connect, ideal for homes with more than 20 devices on the
network. With wifi 6 you can simultaneously play online game, stream video, and
other heavy duty networking tasks efficiently.
What are` those
products that adopt this wifi 6 technology? The following products are few
models with ax6000 based routers you may consider to upgrade your aging
wireless g/n or wireless ac router.
Netgear RAX80
Netgear introduces this wifi 6 product namely Nighthawk ax8 (Netgear
RAX80) with really awesome design, flat with two left and right wings like
stealth air fighter. Powered by high performance 1.8GHz quad core processor,
this wifi 6 router provides you decent performance.
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| Netgear RAX80 / Nighthawk AX8 wifi 6 router |
Highlights
- Awesome design wifi 6 router (802.11ax)
- Dual band high speed up to 1.2Gbps @2.4GHz band and up to 4.8Gbps @5Ghz band
- MU-MIMO with uplink and downlink OFDMA (orthogonal frequency-division multiple access)
- Supports 160MHz channel
- High performance 4pcs pre-optimized internal antennas
- More interfaces: 1x Gigabit WAN, 5x Gigabit LANs with Gigabit Ethernet port aggregation
- 2x USB 3.0 port
- Powered by Quad core 1.8Ghz processor
- Can handle up to 20 devices without wifi drops, no buffering, no stuttering
- Can create a single SSID which can handle both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz clients seamlessly
This wifi
6 Netgear RAX80 is a good product when connect to similar matching ax
clients for optimum data throughput. This product is still pricey around $390 (April,
2019 in Amazon).
Asus RT-AX88U
Another model of wifi
6 router you may also consider is the one introduced by Asus – RT-AX88U ax6000
router. it’s almost similar product as Netgear RAX80 except couple of features.
The design is almost the same as previous Asus RT-AC89U wireless ac2900 gaming
router.
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| Asus -RT-AX88U wifi 6 router |
It comes with external
antennas instead of internal like Nighthawk. The good thing is that this
product (Asus RT-AX88U) comes with lifetime free commercial grade network security
– the Asus AiProtection powered by Trend Micro with regular security signature
updated.
Asus RT-AX88U also
comes with built-in wtfast to secure shortest possible path between your gaming
and the game server to minimize ping and lag.
By KG
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