Coming to a Router and a Device Near You: Wi-Fi 6

by **bdahm** Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:53 pm

In January of this year, at the annual multithousand-square-foot madhouse of consumer electronics in Las Vegas, manufacturers started slipping a new claim into their spec sheets: Supports Wi-Fi 6. New laptops and routers from HP, Dell, Asus—they would all support this new standard. The following month, when Samsung revealed its Galaxy S10 smartphone, it listed Wi-Fi 6 support among the many whiz-band features of the fancy phone. "Wi-Fi 6" was now being included in a flagship product.

So ... what is this new standard that everyone's pledging to support? Wi-Fi 6 is the latest generation of wireless connectivity technology. It hasn’t really launched yet, but it will soon, so tech makers have been building support into devices this year as a means of future-proofing their products.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-wi-fi-6/

-Bill