Difference between Wifi6 and Wifi5

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Wifi6, formerly known as 802.11ax, is the sixth generation of wireless networking technology; Wifi5, formerly known as 802.11ac, is the fifth generation of wireless networking technology.Both Wifi6 and Wifi5 are802.11Wireless LAN communication standards.

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Speed

The Wifi6 maximum transfer rate has been increased from the former's 3.5Gbps, to 9.6Gbps, a theoretical speed increase of nearly three times!

Frequency bands

Wifi5 only covers 5GHz, while Wifi6 covers 2.4/5GHz for complete coverage of low and high speed devices.

Modulation mode aspects

Wifi6 supports 1024-QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) from Wifi5's 256 QAM single 8bit to single 10bit, data capacity increased by 25%, latency reduced by 75%, support for the increase in the number of devices by about 4 times, the relative speed of the increase of 40%.

brightest spot

The biggest difference between Wifi6 and Wifi5 is the introduction of multi-user transmission technology.OFDMAthat enables multiple users to share channel resources, thus improving spectrum utilization. Prior to Wifi6, data transmission used theOFDMtechnology, users are distinguished by different time segments.

Like a truck pulling goods, compared to Wifi5 where a truck can only pull one product (a single data stream occupies a single channel), Wifi6 can flexibly combine the data to fully improve channel utilization and transmission efficiency.

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