Wi-Fi 6 - A Re-introduction
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) is becoming the focus point of wireless networks everywhere as we slowly start to upgrade our existing hardware and software to utilise the added features for ours and users benefits. This blog post is an overview of the features that have been brought in with Wi-Fi 6 to reacquaint myself before I get too stuck into Christmas. Wi-Fi 6 MU-MIMO The previous two iterations of the wireless standard have allowed for the use of more than one concurrent transmission from a single transmitter known as a spatial stream. This is most notably with 11n the first standard that allowed four max and brought in the use of (Multiple Input Multiple Out) to utilise this increase in transmit potential. This in theory allowed up to four signals to be sent at the same time from the same device, four times as many bits, increasing overall throughput. 8011.ac ramped that number up to eight max spatial streams that allowed eight times the bits (simple maths isn't it)...