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There doesn't seem to be many WiFi 6e products at all. I was looking a few days ago because I wanted to replace the Ubiquiti stuff in my setup due to the lawsui

by ziml77 5y ago

There doesn't seem to be many WiFi 6e products at all. I was looking a few days ago because I wanted to replace the Ubiquiti stuff in my setup due to the lawsuit they filed. There wasn't much that came up in my searches for WiFi 6e APs. And expanding that to include routers as well gave me a couple more options but at an absurd price.

zamadatix 5y ago
I found the same as of a couple months ago, ended up going with one of the expensive options. Where I'm at in the apartment complex even 5 GHz is overcrowded to the point of degradation regardless of channel so I really wanted to make the jump. Now that I did on all my devices I still haven't seen a single other 6 GHz BSSID in the area despite trying to find one. I suspect Wi-Fi 7 will be more common. Wi-Fi 6E was great but unless you're one of the rare consumers that is going to replace every client chip you can to gain use out of that 3rd band it's identical to the Wi-Fi 6 equipment many just recently upgraded to. Wi-Fi 7 will have the benefit of some phones/laptops already being 6 GHz capable at launch (even if only 6E devices at first) as well as being a general improvement and farther apart for most in their upgrade cycles.
- ziml77 5y ago
  Crowded 2.4 and 5GHz is exactly why I was looking at the 6E options. But it's not bad enough that it's worth putting a lot into WiFi 6E. I can connect with an ethernet cable if I'm transferring a lot of data or need to ensure a reliable connection.
silisili 5y ago
They exist, but there doesn't seem to be a great reason to grab one yet. Companies have added the 6ghz band but not more capacity...so before you may have had 2 5ghz antennas...one for backhaul and one for clients...now you have to choose whether you want backhaul or clients on a particular frequency, and both are suboptimal. I'd recommend just buying a nice wifi 6 system that puts clients and backhaul both on 5ghz. I routinely pull 500mbps from a satellite on a wifi 6 mesh network(asus xt8), I don't see much need to upgrade.

by ziml77 5y ago

zamadatix 5y ago

I found the same as of a couple months ago, ended up going with one of the expensive options. Where I'm at in the apartment complex even 5 GHz is overcrowded to the point of degradation regardless of channel so I really wanted to make the jump. Now that I did on all my devices I still haven't seen a single other 6 GHz BSSID in the area despite trying to find one. I suspect Wi-Fi 7 will be more common. Wi-Fi 6E was great but unless you're one of the rare consumers that is going to replace every client chip you can to gain use out of that 3rd band it's identical to the Wi-Fi 6 equipment many just recently upgraded to. Wi-Fi 7 will have the benefit of some phones/laptops already being 6 GHz capable at launch (even if only 6E devices at first) as well as being a general improvement and farther apart for most in their upgrade cycles.

ziml77 5y ago
Crowded 2.4 and 5GHz is exactly why I was looking at the 6E options. But it's not bad enough that it's worth putting a lot into WiFi 6E. I can connect with an ethernet cable if I'm transferring a lot of data or need to ensure a reliable connection.

silisili 5y ago

They exist, but there doesn't seem to be a great reason to grab one yet. Companies have added the 6ghz band but not more capacity...so before you may have had 2 5ghz antennas...one for backhaul and one for clients...now you have to choose whether you want backhaul or clients on a particular frequency, and both are suboptimal. I'd recommend just buying a nice wifi 6 system that puts clients and backhaul both on 5ghz. I routinely pull 500mbps from a satellite on a wifi 6 mesh network(asus xt8), I don't see much need to upgrade.