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The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

Roland6 Silver badge

Will someone think about the client device!

I find it amusing that no has mentioned the other problem with WiFi - client device support. WiFi6 sound great on paper, but if your WiFi6 compatible laptop only has a single antenna, or even two antenna (relatively common these days) then don't expect it to be able to utilise more than a fraction the capacity of a decent WiFi6 AP.

However, that same laptop is likely to have a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port which it is capable of transferringdata at speeds in excess of the WiFi adaptor(*)...

In the main WiFi is good enough for many use cases, but if you really need the throughput then a cable connection is likely to be the superior solution.

(*) From memory, tests show that whilst many adaptors support 1000Mbps signalling, they will effectively top out at between 600~800Mbps effective data rate.

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