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Agreed! The thing about 6ghz is that it doesn't travel through walls as well, and tends to have shorter range in general. On the surface, this seems like a neg
by nfriedly 4y ago
Agreed! The thing about 6ghz is that it doesn't travel through walls as well, and tends to have shorter range in general.
On the surface, this seems like a negative, but if you're in a crowded apartment building, it can actually be a major benefit. Even if a bunch of your neighbors end up using it on the same channel as you, you won't experience as much interference because the walls will attenuate their signals.
Of course, a single AP might not reliably cover your entire home in 6ghz, but you can always fall back to 2.4 and 5ghz and/or get more APs.
Additionally, WiFi 6 (and 6e) is better in general at detecting neighboring networks across all frequency bands and reducing interference automatically.
- sumtechguy 4y agoOne of my neighbors put in 8 access points for about 1000sqft. Swamped everyone else out. That is what unfortunately will happen. :(
- nfriedly 4y agoIf they're configured correctly, multiple APs on a given network can actually lead to lower congestion, because they can each lower their signal strength to only cover a small area... but it sounds like that isn't what happened here. 8 in a single small home is absurdly excessive. My home is more than twice that size and I only have a single AP (although I have been considering adding 1-2 more.)
- sumtechguy 4y agoI was tempted to just walk over and hand him one of my old ones that covered the apt easily... But they moved out and problem solved itself.