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Do you have any links talking about what wifi-6 capabilities are missing? I was under the impression capabilities like OFDMA were mandatory on uplink & downlin
by rektide 4y ago
Do you have any links talking about what wifi-6 capabilities are missing?
I was under the impression capabilities like OFDMA were mandatory on uplink & downlink for "WiFi 6". Ditto for Target Wake Time.
In general, while wifi might not always be the best pick, I also see it working very well in many challenging environments, and I think the expectation that low end devices are necessarily bad for the network isnt going to hold forever. The legacy 802.11b devices have left a lot of emotional scars & pain, and wifi 4 & 5 had many limitations that made low-end devices a network tax, but it seems like we really finally are on the way to better.
I was aware of 802.11ah somewhat, but admit I had forgotten just how many tweaks/optizations went into it. Time division/grouping I'd forgotten about. TWT seems like a good help here. It also seems to lack the key thing that should hopefully be decreasing congrestion, which is ppwer control, which should hopefully greatly reduce congestion in most scenarios, by making devices not always be shoutintg at each other.
Admittedly it seems like a large number of esp32 users do struggle woth throughput, which sucks. A quick scan around the net & Im seeing very few users get above 12Mbps. Many see huge gains from improving bad board design, which seems to compound the issue. WiFi 6 has great potential, but as usual, there's many paths abound to screw up a good thing.