Learn these points, the purchase of WiFI6 router will not be a loss
Careful partners have not found, in recent times the release of new products are emphasizing their support WiFi6 network, including router brands, cell phones and laptops and other brands. In fact, it is not difficult to understand, nowadays routers play a very important role inside the home, in addition to daily cell phones, laptops through the router Internet, games, learning office, there are many smart devices also rely on the router work, so it is imperative to improve the network environment.
WiFi6 has significantly improved compared to the previous generation WiFi5 wireless technology, WiFi6 router maximum rate of up to 9.6Gbps, in the number of connected devices, transmission stability and power consumption performance, become the core advantage of the future network technology. So what are the specific advantages of WiFi6 technology? Here's an inventory.
Standard features of WiFi6
WiFi6 standard features include OFDMA, MU-MIMO, 1024-QAM and many other parameters, only with these can be considered the "real" WiFi6. only part or rub the edge of the label WiFi6, often similar to WiFi5 enhanced version, and do not enjoy the real WiFi6 excellent The benefits of WiFi6 are not available. Some manufacturers, however, also pack some other concepts to divide the router in terms of channel width or other performance. For example, the concept of WiFi6+ essentially means that the channel width of the router has been increased to 160MHz, and the essence still follows WiFi6 technology, not WiFi6 technology with an upgraded version. And such a WiFi6 router is not only launched this year, but only this year there are manufacturers to explode it as a concept. The most important thing is what technology the router really uses, what parameters it supports, and what it can actually achieve. It is important to know what technology the router uses, what parameters it supports, and what kind of results it can achieve.
Here are the characteristics of the specific parameters of WiFi6 technology, especially why it has advantages over WiFi5.
OFDMA, which can divide the wireless channel into multiple sub-channels and divide the data into smaller blocks of resources for management and transmission. It is like a car loading, in the WiFi5 era can only load one cargo, even if the cargo is very small causing waste of resources can not be controlled. While WiFi6 era trucks can be loaded with different goods, making full use of space. And each time period multiple terminals in parallel to send, not waiting in line, the efficiency is greatly improved. In addition OFDMA to multipath signal is relatively strong processing ability, while the terminal will choose the wireless performance of good sub-channels to send power communication centrally, so it also has the qualities of expanding the coverage range and improving the quality of coverage.
MU-MIMO, also known as Multi-User Multi-Out Multi-Input, is actually a technology that enables routers to communicate with multiple terminals concurrently. WiFi5 routers only have 4×4 MU-MIMO downlinks; WiFi6 can support up and down links up to 8×8 MU-MIMO, which is why WiFi5 routers always download fast and upload slow. So when picking a WiFi6 router, choose a higher uplink and downlink according to your needs, which can solve the bandwidth problem of multiple devices accessing at the same time.
The last thing is that WiFi6 router supports 160MHz channel bandwidth, combined with 1024-QAM support, more information can be transmitted under the same signal, which makes the total data throughput increase dramatically.
Having said that I believe you have more knowledge about WiFi6 technology than before. So interested parties will ask how to choose a WiFi6 router if they want to buy one. And what are the places to pay attention to? Here is a detailed description for you.
Performance determines the speed of the network
The router has an optimization role for the network, which is mainly reflected in the algorithm and hardware performance of the router. The performance of router parameters also varies widely, but for the actual needs of users, the most straightforward to see the indicator is the concurrency rate, this value is high network speed is smooth and worry-free, too low will affect the actual network speed, the loss is not worth it. Currently most WiFi6 routers even use quad-core processors to meet data processing needs. But not multi-core router is necessarily high rate. For example, the latest AX86U quad-core processor released by ASUS, dual-band concurrent rate of up to 5700Mbps; like some WIFI6 routers claim quad-core, but dual-band concurrent wireless rate of only 1800Mbps; only 300% difference in rate, that the performance is very different.
Optimized for gaming
The better the algorithm, the more outstanding the hardware performance, the more obvious the optimization effect relative to the network. In fact, many users buy a slightly high-end router is to want a smooth network speed to meet the needs of gaming, after all, no one wants to be at home hacking but stuck into PPT by teammates scolded.
The WiFi6 router is then required to do deep optimization in the gaming aspect. There are a lot of gaming routers on the market, but not many of them are really optimized for gaming. Asus RT-AX86U built-in hand gaming gaming mode, open to help you experience to become a king.
In addition many routes have is hardware acceleration. Like the ASUS AX86U set up a 2.5G port + WAN/LAN aggregation port combination to achieve 2000M data stream interaction, regardless of that input and output mode can easily squeeze WiFi6 all performance.
And the RT-AX86U also defaults the router LAN1 to the gaming port, and the router will give priority to forwarding packets from the gaming port when connected, which is used to solve the network latency problem. It is rare to see such deep optimization of gaming on the hardware side of all kinds of gaming routers
All-scene applications Online classes, office, and traffic control are equally important
In addition to gaming, the WiFi6 router also needs to meet the work and study needs of the whole family. With constant internet speed, is it possible to allocate the remaining bandwidth targeted to where it is needed. For example, when there are children at home for online classes; when dad needs to work online; when mom is catching up on a drama, etc.
There are not many routers with this feature, among which ASUS WiFi6 router can solve the above problems through the bandwidth management (QoS) function, which allows users to adjust the network priority according to the usage scenarios and well match the APPs in different scenarios to achieve network optimization and reach superior experience, including gaming, streaming media, home office, online class learning, web browsing, file transfer, etc. The preset modes can be adjusted in real time, which is very convenient.
For example, online class learning mode, like New Oriental, Xuezhi, 51Talk, etc. can be directly accelerated. Mom loves to watch videos can set video media mode, like Tencent video, BilBili, etc. smoothly play. Office mode enterprise WeChat, Nail, Tencent meeting also made accelerated optimization, from the function to achieve a key optimization to meet the needs of the whole family use.
The parental control function is also an important indicator for WiFi6 router purchase, after all, many families have to consider the needs of the children who won the title of "beast" in this super super long holiday. They are very curious about the Internet, but poorly discerning, so they need parental control. Most WiFi6 routers on the market today are able to achieve control of children's Internet time and devices in the APP function. It is worth mentioning that ASUS routers also enable blocking of content, such as adults, violence, gambling, etc. to achieve point-to-point blocking, ensuring the safety of children's Internet access.
The importance of brand
WiFi6 is a new technology that has emerged in the past two years, for this new wave of technology requires a lot of manpower and financial resources for the initial investment in research and development, so the emergence of a new technology to vigorously promote the education of users of the brand, are often big brands, technology pioneers. Then, when buying a router, you should give priority to big brand products to ensure the quality and stability of the product.
The earliest brands to launch WiFi6 routers are ASUS, Netgear and a few other manufacturers, their understanding of the industry, product development and control of user needs to be much deeper than the brands that have just entered the WiFi6 market. In particular, products like Asus, which have undergone the most stringent certification by the WiFi Alliance, are even rarer, with the Asus AX88U having passed certification as early as December last year. So the Asus brand has a much longer history than some emerging Internet brands, so it has an inherent advantage in terms of technical precipitation. However, in contrast to other emerging road brands, ASUS has been cultivating the Chinese mainland market for many years, and understands the preferences of mainland users very well, and is usually technically relevant to the actual use of scenarios to solve problems, which is an obvious advantage to some foreign routing brands that do not understand the local climate.
After-sales service to solve the user's worries
Users buy products for the follow-up is still very concerned about the service, the current market mainstream routers are 1 year after-sales service. Asus router is a 3-year warranty period, which 1 year of non-human damage to the product official direct replacement, the second and third years of normal maintenance problems warranty, such after-sales service can be seen in the manufacturer's confidence in the quality of their own products.
5G and WiFi6 is undoubtedly the recent and even a long time in the future network technology development hotspots. With the gradual development of technology, consumers are seeing more and more terminal devices in the market that apply these two technologies, which also predicts that 2020 will be the year of the explosion of WiFi6 routers.
So those who are shopping for WiFi6 routers can refer to the above few considerations, so that the router you choose will not go wrong.
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