"Given that the lack of clients had been hampering the adoption of Wi-Fi 6 over the last couple of years, this was a tiny niche to play in." It probably doesn't help that we are still waiting for the Wi-Fi 6 standard to be confirmed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, let alone have devices which are certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Exactly. That was the message I want to quote. Unlike previous 802.11 standards, the ax standard didn't even pass majority vote until Draft 3 in mid 2018. And that passed was literally forced upon because manufacturers wants to get it out asap ( Although the notion was most of the problems had agreeable fixes on its way ). And it was really Draft 4.0 that was even good enough as Draft.
I was expecting AX, aka WiFI 6 in 2017, and we are not close to 2020. Most of the remaining issues may likely not be iron out even in Wave 2 of 802.11ax.
I guess the latest news says late 2019 for ratification. But it seems they're not in a hurry while manufacturers are in a hurry.
I really hope the latest draft is good enough not just as a draft but as a final hardware, so any new modifications for the final ratification could be done with a firmware update.
802.11ax a.k.a Wifi6 has not yet been ratified, hopefully once it has we will see low cost routers become available as they are all expensive at the moment.
For notebook clients WiFi 6 is cheap, easy and available today.
My Whiskey Lake Lenovo S730 came with with i7/16GB-RAM/1TB NVMe/TB3 but they sneaked in an embarrasingly cheap 433Mbit Wifi card to sell below €1000 overall (excluding VAT).
Ordered an AX200 WiFi 6 M.2 module for less than €20, swapped it in and am now waiting to upgrade my AC-1200 access point to see if it can beat the 2.5 USB3 Ethernet I use for wired access on that machine (300MB/s file transfers).
With the older access point I am getting full AC-1200 potential which translates to 60MB/s file transfers, but most important for me is that Steam Remote Play finally works over WLAN: Always insisted on a wire before and seems to indicate a decisive latency improvement over the entire Intel AX range (own/use 7000/8000 and 9000 series Intel AC WLAN modules in various notebooks which deliver the same bandwidth, but fail with Remote Play).
I was a tad afraid Leno's infamous device whitelisting might keep me from going with the "Ice-Lake-only" Wifi performance, but that turned out to be a non-issue.
So you don't have to wait or start saving your pennies to start your WiFi 6 journey today; there could be some benefits already and when access point prices come into range, you could already own what it takes to reap in the benefits.
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Pro-competition - Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - link
"Given that the lack of clients had been hampering the adoption of Wi-Fi 6 over the last couple of years, this was a tiny niche to play in." It probably doesn't help that we are still waiting for the Wi-Fi 6 standard to be confirmed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, let alone have devices which are certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.ksec - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - link
Exactly. That was the message I want to quote. Unlike previous 802.11 standards, the ax standard didn't even pass majority vote until Draft 3 in mid 2018. And that passed was literally forced upon because manufacturers wants to get it out asap ( Although the notion was most of the problems had agreeable fixes on its way ). And it was really Draft 4.0 that was even good enough as Draft.I was expecting AX, aka WiFI 6 in 2017, and we are not close to 2020. Most of the remaining issues may likely not be iron out even in Wave 2 of 802.11ax.
Xajel - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - link
I guess the latest news says late 2019 for ratification. But it seems they're not in a hurry while manufacturers are in a hurry.I really hope the latest draft is good enough not just as a draft but as a final hardware, so any new modifications for the final ratification could be done with a firmware update.
spaceship9876 - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - link
802.11ax a.k.a Wifi6 has not yet been ratified, hopefully once it has we will see low cost routers become available as they are all expensive at the moment.abufrejoval - Sunday, September 1, 2019 - link
For notebook clients WiFi 6 is cheap, easy and available today.My Whiskey Lake Lenovo S730 came with with i7/16GB-RAM/1TB NVMe/TB3 but they sneaked in an embarrasingly cheap 433Mbit Wifi card to sell below €1000 overall (excluding VAT).
Ordered an AX200 WiFi 6 M.2 module for less than €20, swapped it in and am now waiting to upgrade my AC-1200 access point to see if it can beat the 2.5 USB3 Ethernet I use for wired access on that machine (300MB/s file transfers).
With the older access point I am getting full AC-1200 potential which translates to 60MB/s file transfers, but most important for me is that Steam Remote Play finally works over WLAN: Always insisted on a wire before and seems to indicate a decisive latency improvement over the entire Intel AX range (own/use 7000/8000 and 9000 series Intel AC WLAN modules in various notebooks which deliver the same bandwidth, but fail with Remote Play).
I was a tad afraid Leno's infamous device whitelisting might keep me from going with the "Ice-Lake-only" Wifi performance, but that turned out to be a non-issue.
So you don't have to wait or start saving your pennies to start your WiFi 6 journey today; there could be some benefits already and when access point prices come into range, you could already own what it takes to reap in the benefits.
FXi - Sunday, September 1, 2019 - link
Will these new chips have fixes for the latest weaknesses found in WPA3?https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-dragonblood-vuln...
sanu - Monday, October 14, 2019 - link
Can i use this with JioFi WiFi modem. I am setting up using this tutorialshttps://jio4gvoiceapk.in/jiofi-local-html/