Is WiFi 6 Actually Faster than The Current Gen WiFi?

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[@turnthatfrownupsidedownp5100]

5:08 for test results

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

Thank you MVP

[@MustaMT]

Lol thank you he talks a lot 😹

[@MxSmack]

Great testing, shame there's no latency results in the graph.

[@joewebber5956]

keep up the great work on all your videos across all your channels

[@SimonBody]

Do you think this is worth replacing the BT and Google Mesh (What I currently have) with and what would you recommend. House is large and I need to get out to the garage :-)

[@RobinMoran]

Hey Alex, would you recommend adding WiFi 6 to a Unifi infrastructure? If so, do you use this as the router or use the UDM or USG as router?

[@wax333]

could you disable wifi 5 ?some routers will switch between the both sometimes. also will disabling one wireless frequency be any benefit to data flow?

[@glenperks9217]

Hi Alex, is it worth waiting for WiFi 6 to come to Unifi?

[@jsheridan2793]

Recently got a WiFi 6 router for my Xfinity gigabit connection here in the US , it definitely makes a difference.

[@shockjock35]

Is your Samsung Phone AX WiFi 6 enabled? I’m currently using The modem/router combo that is issued by the ISP (AT&T) with Fiber 100 my speed test can get about 125 mbps. I don’t have any WiFi 6 devices. But I do have a lot of WIFi devices connected like iPhones ,iPads, Security System,Irrigation System, 4K TV’s, Smart Plugs, Smart Lights. I’m just wondering if it’s worth getting the WiFi 6 Nighthawk or Orbi mesh router.

[@dylanblack3544]

Hi Alex does wifi 6 make a difference If you have a mesh system set up with good coverage?

[@will300c]

I am pretty sure people don't put their router in an open window. This is not a valid test close the window then it more fair.

[@techflow]

We know that, we put it there so we could get a fair line of sight test to the router. The different floors were more of a real life test.

[@zabutimaxim]

Alex did you enable the OFDMA when you tested the wifi 6?

[@jameslay5870]

Hi Alex struggling with validity if 2.4N & 5AC gets better the further away LOS. Based on these outputs I should get a better speed from your non WIFI6 router where I live?!?

[@glenperks9217]

Hey Alex! Lovin the videos buddy. I’m looking to sack of my Linksys Velop mesh and go with Ubiquiti. Any news on AX coming anytime soon to say the nanoHD?

[@garywhite335]

I have a sky q hub for my home I want to add a better system any idea and what would you recommend that will work with this set up.. tp link ? The range and drop is shocking

[@danielexinvil]

How about you test wifi 6 mesh routers, and for a twist add on moca Adapters if possible to have a hard line to each node

[@ulaganath]

Can you compare what is connection rate . S10 possible have 2x2 MU MIMO. What difference between N/AC to AX on connection rate on idle condition.

[@hatimaliraqisongsandotheri5268]

where did you get your t-shirt from?

[@wasswabatte]

Which ISP are you using?

[@josh.299]

Somenice unbox therapy music near the end

[@justinblake4878]

Great video, as always!

[@PtrkHrnk]

Hello. Could you please make the screen recordings bigger? I barely see anything on my phone...

[@benbradbury3665]

Well done for actually testing Wi-Fi speed rather than download speed! (I trolled you last time )

[@benbradbury3665]

Mircea don’t think you understand. He tested his broadband speed on Wi-Fi 6 which proved nothing... he learnt his lesson and did it properly this time.

[@AveryTCC]

Such an amazing video!

[@80211WiGuy]

Just a recommendation for future videos - WiFi Sweet spots is great but it only measures throughput in the upstream direction Phone->AP. It works by sending junk IP packets that get discarded at the router but still transfers over WiFi, there's no way for it to trigger this in the opposite (download) direction. IPerf3 is an awesome tool that can be loaded on most devices for full bidirectional TCP and UDP performance testing.

[@tobyjakewright]

awesome video, keep up the great work !

[@techflow]

Thank you!!! 🙌🏻

[@mohamedelrayes31]

Will you review the Amplifi Alien router?

[@AKTECH2222]

when alex will review the amplifi alien by ubiquiti ?

[@georgepacan4866]

what speed test was that? i remember it but dont know the name anymore it was pretty good

[@maxiambrunnen]

WiFi Sweetspots

[@mokekr]

It would be better if you have 8 S20's connected to wifi 5 then wifi 6..that would have been a fairer test as the 6 upgrade is geared towards more device connection speeds

[@jGRite]

Nice, now all I need is a WiFi 6 router and device.

[@HegoDamaskII]

What phone do u have

[@kevinlind7298]

Are you comparing it to Ac wave 1 or wave 2 wifi 6 is really just Ac wave 3 Cisco said the standard is rolling out if waves I think it 8s 1 more wave before the Ac standard will be complete

[@chocolatemilk9102]

Damn it. I just bought my xr500 router too last year

[@Joshuaxiong2]

That’s not how you say router. 5:55 Finally you say router correctly.

[@Stampylongbow]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEO

[@BrunoPeixotoVieira]

I don't know if in UK you guys have this joke, but here in Brazil we say that the one have a yellow hand is the one who farted, but man, you will be the one that farts everytime! HAHAHA

[@BeyondtheBox1]

If you’re reading this, you’re going to have a good day 😎

[@Dionesus]

Tell me why I actually thought he was using a real pencil with his ipad....lol

[@fredspoon]

Just sad you said “pacifically” don’t worry still love the channel !!!

[@kophotography895]

Sorry I feel your test could be flawed firstly the window is not a real example of every day use and or range due to the street lamps & or anything that is under the ground is power cables & also your over elevated position, also if anyone else has an open router or repeater your can blind hop on it for connectivity services ie the App you are using just like any network sniffer app. Also there is a transmission umbrella of radial transmission which has a fall off depending on amplitude or antenna power. I also believe by the simplicity of 8-pwr that it should have a theoretical bandwidth of 16gb not 8x8x8x2 which is 1024 around 1gb, if this is the case then we are being heavily throttled and by unlocking the mechanism we could have a huge band width. The night hawk sound like its marketing rubbish and everyone is listening to it. Please do you Network Architecture calculations before doing reviews even if unrealistic... As people believe what they see these days

[@Bruh-mm5rn]

I have 1mb upload and 17 mb download so 2.4 ghz is fine for me😁👌

[@francocastilloAR]

You could have done the tests with iperf that has a mobile app and the server on a cable-connected PC.

[@supremeicecreme1658]

He could have done, but think about the channel you're watching... Also WiFi Sweet Spots measures the link speed to the access point perfectly fine, whereas iperf measures the throughput to the server you're connecting to I'm pretty sure.

[@francocastilloAR]

@@supremeicecreme1658 If you talk about WiFi and more about WiFi AX, you can also talk about server and client, iperf and terminal, which is very simple to do in THIS ONLY test. I can believe that using that App is fine when you are testing a mesh network or similar for a matter of jumps, but if it is in such a common scenario that is the video, I would say that it is better with a local server. Also, what matters is the speed of the local network, not the internet.

[@supremeicecreme1658]

@@francocastilloAR yes, that is exactly what I'm saying and is exactly what has been tested.

[@francocastilloAR]

@@supremeicecreme1658 And how do you test the WiFi speed if you don't connect to the internet and there isn't an iperf-style server? The only thing that occurs to me is that the smartphone acts as a server and client, therefore the traffic of the app comes and goes.

[@supremeicecreme1658]

@@francocastilloAR I'm not certain. I believe the actual link speed is reported.

[@moisestheentrepreneur637]

Wifi 6 saves battery on devices, less latency, more speed, more users, beam forming, organized bandwidth & I'm to lazy to write the rest.

[@ChristosLouridas]

Liking before watching squad here. PS. COOL Apple Pencil skin bro.

[@rafajrichard]

This is the best video I've watched on AX WiFi by far! And the first one to try AX on 2,4GHz, thank you Alex!

[@techflow]

Thank you Richard! I'm glad we could help 🙌🏻

[@JxckSweeney]

You should be using iperf when your trying to test in this scenario. Not a internet speed test.

[@JonnyIT1]

Nice Video

[@scp3178]

Hi Alex, good Video as always. It's funny how often you present the different pronunciations of i.e. router (like 'rooter' or 'rowter'). Just stay with your way of pronouncing router. ;-) That'd be ok. Chris

[@techflow]

Haha thank you! And fair enough, we shall make sure to do that in future!

[@ahommen]

not to be an ass.... but why is it that the videos on your "professional" channel has the worst audio and color accuracy? the audio crackles and the color is way off in the blacks... seem to me, the editor need a better audio and monitor setup ASAP

[@AdamH7]

Yeah I get like 36Mbps down and 9 up max.

[@RedDawnGamin]

mine is 600mbps down 20mbps up

[@pcislocked]

nobody: auto subs; wifi sex

[@CaitlinFotheringham]

Representing the results as percentages makes them more relative and easier to understand

[@JedDcosta]

Caitlin Fotheringham no it doesn’t this is internet speeds we’re talking about.

[@CaitlinFotheringham]

Jed Dcosta yeah it does, makes the increase or decrease in performance instantly relative as there is no need to memorise previous results. There are reasons it’s so heavily adopted by the scientific community, such as helping with cost-benefit analysis

[@JedDcosta]

Caitlin Fotheringham this isn’t science this internet speeds. Most people watching techflow videos have the knowledge to know megabits per second percentages are just confusing to some people and we understands megabits per second better

[@CaitlinFotheringham]

@@JedDcosta it is science. Percentages are universal and well understood. I'm not saying use percentages instead, but rather in addition to help with comprehension

[@nifthak4714]

Awesome

[@2812helenpaul]

well i have @gigaclesr and i can have 1gb fiber to my door so much better than i had before at 1mb on bt

[@alvidrez7956]

That’s the problem with WiFi . We shouldn’t be getting crazy signal and download speeds half way down the block . Turn your signal strength down and keep interference down to a minimal .everybody jacking their signal strength to max in dense areas , is terrible for WiFi . Too much interference

[@vkhiev]

What's a ROOTER

[@markajoseph1980]

This is complete BS your testing the link speed between the router and device not actual WiFi speed, plus you only have 1 device connected to the router. Load it up with 15 different devices on a mixture of b/g/n a and AC have them pulling a few mbps each to simulate a real world environment and then see if it does anything better and a standard dual band router

[@supremeicecreme1658]

The link between the device and the access point/router *IS* the WiFi speed. If he were to test *broadband* speed (connection out to the internet) you're unlikely to see much of a difference when close to the router, and in this example you're not going to show off the extreme benefits of using WiFi 6. Not everything involves using fast internet. Think about if you're using Plex or something similar on your phone? That's what WiFi 6 is about - removing that bottleneck between the end device and the access point.

[@MarcoVillalobosj]

Nine

[@kophotography895]

You are clipping your audio chap.. horrid on earphones

[@panaoutsios1990]

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[@GoldDominik893]

Third

[@anthonyixe9801]

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[@danquaid7103]

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[@whybud]

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[@MustaMT]

Doing great but stop saying router / router and maybe talk less? 😅

[@kophotography895]

WiFi 6 is actually 6hGz not 2.4 or 5gHz.. I think www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-6

[@kophotography895]

Defo on this as the reference that Netgear makes is not to band width ie gHz it is to certification. I am going to find my lecture books on this and see if I can explain the academics as the whole 802 thing is so being misrepresented by the marketing spin. 6gHz and 5gHz and 2.4 gHz is not a straight forward 2,400,000 Hz conversion as it takes into account applitude as well as band width, by widening the bandwidth does not increase the gHz

[@PUNKSTER690]

What you are referring to is wifi 6E which is the next generation. WIFI 6 runs on 2.4 and 5 GHZ where WIFI 6E runs on 6GHZ see following article www.howtogeek.com/519823/wi-fi-6e-what-is-it-and-how-is-it-different-from-wi-fi-6/