#wi-fi 6

If your current Wi-Fi connection isn’t strong enough to support your growing number of devices, you might be on the lookout for a better solution. You may have heard of Wi-Fi 6, which arrived in 2019. These new technologies help mitigate the issues that come with putting dozens of Wi-Fi devices on a single network. It lets routers communicate with more devices at once, send data to multiple devices in one broadcast, and lets Wi-Fi devices schedule check-ins with the router. That means that Wi-Fi standards — the technical specifications that manufacturers use to create Wi-Fi, need to be periodically updated so that new technology can flourish and everything can remain compatible. So, the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group that manages Wi-Fi nomenclature, has branded this new spectrum and the devices that can take advantage of it under a new name: Wi-Fi 6E. Photo by Wi-Fi Alliance In a nutshell, Wi-Fi 6E is an extension of Wi-Fi 6 that operates in the new 6 GHz frequency band instead of the traditional 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. It has all the characteristics of Wi-Fi 6, including Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and Target Wake Time (TWT). Read more in our articles including "Wi-Fi 6E Explained" and "Wi-Fi Alliance intros Wi-Fi 6 and new naming system".