What is the difference between WiFi 6 routers and WiFi 5 routers

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With the popularization of the new generation of wireless communication standards and the reduction of production costs, gateways/routers that support the WiFi 6 standard have been increasingly widely used in the past two years. What are the improvements of WiFi 6 routers compared to the previous generation of routers? Do we have to replace WiFi 6 routers? This article will give you a brief introduction.

The differences between WiFi 6 routers and WiFi 5 routers are mainly reflected in communication speed, number of connected devices, communication efficiency, stability and applicability. As we all know, every increase in network speed can promote the development of new applications, from viewing pictures on 3G, to viewing videos on 4G, to the intelligent connection of all things on 5G. In the advancement from WiFi 5 to WiFi 6, the same leap-forward experience will be reproduced.

1. Rapid communication speed

WiFi 6 routers now support 1024-QAM high-order modulation, which is four times the 256-QAM of WiFi 5 routers, with higher data capacity and wireless transmission rates up to 9.6Gbps.

2. Increased number of linked devices

WiFi 6 routers generally support the new generation of frequency division technology, which can meet the concurrent communication of more Internet devices and increase the access capacity by 4 times compared to WiFi 5 routers.

3. Improved communication efficiency

WiFi 6 routers use multi-user MU-MIMO technology and support multi-terminal channel sharing, making it convenient for multiple mobile phones/computers/IoT terminals to access the Internet and exchange data at the same time. It changes the queuing sequence on WiFi 5 routers to a "go hand in hand" method, greatly improving communication efficiency.

4. Expansion of application scenarios

WiFi 6 routers introduce Target Wake Time (TWT) technology. All Internet terminal devices connected to the WiFi 6 router support on-demand wake-up function when in standby mode, which can reduce the power consumption of Internet terminals by 30% and improve the battery life of devices. This is advantageous in scenarios that require long-term unattended operation, such as water conservancy monitoring, oil field monitoring, wind turbine monitoring, and geological disaster monitoring.

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