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Agreed. I live the USA in a 100 year old apartment building, and can see a zillion ISP provided routers, all squabbling over the same handful of 5GHz channels
by drewg123 11mo ago
Agreed. I live the USA in a 100 year old apartment building, and can see a zillion ISP provided routers, all squabbling over the same handful of 5GHz channels. 6E is a game changer.
5Ghz is stuttery and laggy and makes it pretty much impossible to have a clean video call. I don't game, but gaming on it would be miserable. I've measured latency, and it regularly spikes above 1s.
6E is far, far better. Rock solid video calls. Latency testing sites show low, steady latency. The only real problem is signal attenuation seems to be far worse with 6E. Getting a signal 2 walls away from the router is nearly impossible. Though this is also a strength, as it limits the number of devices competing for spectrum.
- throw0101d 11mo ago> I live the USA in a 100 year old apartment building, and can see a zillion ISP provided routers, all squabbling over the same handful of 5GHz channels. 6E is a game changer. What channel width (20/40/80/other) are you typically seeing?
- drewg123 11mo agoI've been using the free version of NetSpot, and it does not seem to show the width. The ISP really should configure the narrowest width possible. Our ISP provided router does seem to default to 20MHz (I think; I cannot recall if I changed it). It offers the choice of 20 or 40Mhz.
- manwithaplan 11mo agoI can recommend https://github.com/VREMSoftwareDevelopment/WiFiAnalyzer https://github.com/VREMSoftwareDevelopment/WiFiAnalyzer for a pretty comprehensive Wi-Fi analysis.
- MichaelZuo 11mo agoHow is this even possible? Even a few sheets of drywall greatly attenuates 5 GHz. Your scenario simply seems impossible unless you have a weird router that can only utilize a tiny portion of the channels.