Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years

&gt; But “Wi-Fi 6” means your device is still operating on the same old spectrum, so starting later this year, you’ll want to start looking for the label “Wi-Fi 6E.” That stands for “Wi-Fi 6 extended into the 6GHz band.”<p>Why do we keep doing this?? It’s as if we’re trying as hard as we can to confuse consumers... “WiFi 6”? Yeah that’s not WiFi 6ghz, that’s 2.4 and 5. But “WiFi 6E” now that’s 6ghz.

What a shit headline, and such irony when I click the link and see a giant banner declaring that &quot;explanatory journalism has never been more important.&quot;<p>The article starts from the premise that raw spectrum is the way to measure significance of WiFi standard revisions to sell ax as a bigger enhancement over the previous standard than when n or ac hit the market. Then a few paragraphs later The Verge to hedge down into &quot;Will this make Wi-Fi faster? Sort of&quot; and &quot;the new airwaves should help bump your speed up.&quot;<p>So, the &quot;biggest upgrade&quot; in 20 years is better throughput for the handful of RF environments where the bottleneck isn&#x27;t already the uplink? Cool.

This will be great for rural fixed wireless ISPs. The more channels that might not have interference, the better.