Maybe that will come down in price as its effective already out-of-date now WiFi 6E kit is coming out.
6E as it stands means routers have to be triband so all 6E routers at the moment are revisions using the Broadcom chips from Asus to the new Netgear RAXE500 which is based on the RAX200.
As it stands Samsung have their new phone announced that it supports 6E but will it really offer any benefit over its ability to use a 5Ghz on WiFi 6.
6E as it stands at the moment will remain only for top tier routers and the price may hinder that step. The trouble is router manufacturers will quote figure based on total theoretical output which is never obtained and then you have the end client that dictates its output ie. 2x2 or 4x4 for example and then you have to use 160Mhz to gain max throughput which then leads to compatibility issues if you have a client that’s capable of this.
I’ve a draft 3 device and to understand its potential you have to go and look at the manufacturers of the chipsets and then see what they are capable of and in my case mine does not support UL OFDMA, TwT or the full BSS coloring.
Of course to the end user there may be very little noticeable difference.
Add MU Mimo and understanding client streams is just a nightmare for end users let alone if the client supports MU Mimo.
A classic example at the moment is the PS5 with its WiFi 6. I look at Reddit for example and many believe due to its WiFi 6 it can handle 9.6Gb but sadly not as it’s a NXP chipset that is 2x2 Mimo with a max throughput of 1.6Gb so reality is not much more throughput but it’s WiFi stability should be better.
6E has a long way to go and with Qualcomm pushing for WiFi 7 and in a recent article their pushing for 2024 we may see one of the shortest lengths with a standard but we have to wait and see.
I’m quite interested to see where 5g leads.
