> so in reality you're 1 channel up over 6GHz becasue people are not buying wifi6 router to stay on 80MHz channel In reality, a 1x1 80Mhz connection gives you

> so in reality you're 1 channel up over 6GHz becasue people are not buying wifi6 router to stay on 80MHz channel In reality, a 1x1 80Mhz connection gives you a 600 Mbps PHY rate: * https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005725/wireless/legacy-intel-wireless-products.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000... * https://superuser.com/questions/1619079/what-is-the-maximum-connection-speed-and-channel-width-on-each-2-4-ghz-and-5-ghz https://superuser.com/questions/1619079/what-is-the-maximum-... Even if you halve that, how many online activities are going to make use of that bandwidth? And if you have a 2x2 client, you double it anyways. A 1x1 40Mhz using 802.11ax will give you a max PHY of 287Mbps. How many activities use >100 Mbps, especially continuously? Off the top of my head: certainly downloading a new game or software updates can eat up those bits, and photo/video editing or creation (local NAS or uploading) it might be useful; are there any other activities that use that? As I commented elsewhere: it would be great if residential Wifi devices defaulted to 40 MHz.