• bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When I was looking into routers 6E had just come out, and from everything I could find that extra spectrum was only being used as a backhaul for mesh networks. A moot point for single node networks or those with a wired backhaul, which was generally still recommended by everything I read.

    • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      WiFi in its current form will never be better than ethernet for backhaul applications as it is half-duplex. The benefits of the new spectrum are wider bands which makes the real-world speeds closer to the published speeds. Congested frequencies mean the bands must be more narrow, which lowers real-world bandwidth.