Is there any point in a AX or wifi6e router if...

[thewizard1241]

if you only have a 200mb down and 100mb up connection?

Or is it more usefull in the 1GB range?

 

[L&LD]

The more clients you have connected and being used concurrently, the more 'point' of having the more powerful consumer router 'now'. Regardless of the ISP speeds.

 

[thewizard1241]

The more clients you have connected and being used concurrently, the more 'point' of having the more powerful consumer router 'now'. Regardless of the ISP speeds.

Makes sense, Thank you!

 

[Deleted member 22229]

I think 6E will be the best thing since sliced bread. That said It to will eventually saturate as well. But it may take a few years.

 

[thewizard1241]

I think 6E will be the best thing since sliced bread. That said It to will eventually saturate as well. But it may take a few years.

Hopefully we can see some reviews as products begin rolling out by the end of this year

 

[cooloutac]

The more clients you have connected and being used concurrently, the more 'point' of having the more powerful consumer router 'now'. Regardless of the ISP speeds.

but don't you need wifi 6 or mu-mimo devices to take advantage? I got tha ax58u thinking it would handle more devices better then my ac66u_b1 but I was very disappointed. Still flakes out if you start hiding networks or adding mac addresses for more then 20 devices. Seemed even less stable dropping wifi connections. I returned it and went back to the ac66u. Even though I do have a couple wifi 6 devices. The only thing that seemed to be an improvement was the wifi range especially the 5ghz. Speeds weren't any different since like the above user I only have a 100MB line.

 

[thiggins]

If you have bandwidth-hogging devices, the "power" of the router won't matter as much as you might think.
Bandwidth hogs are:
- older standard (aka "legacy") devices (a/b/g/n)
- lower stream # devices (single stream vs. 2 streams. Single stream is common in IoT and cheap tablets
- devices in low signal areas.

Also keep in mind some older devices could be incompatible with some AX features and drop connection. Not much you can do if you also have AX devices besides put "legacy" devices on 2.4 GHz and disable AX features on that band.

 

[thiggins]

but don't you need wifi 6 or mu-mimo devices to take advantage?

Yes, you need matching devices to take advantage of features in newer standards. Older devices can get some benefit from better radio RF and perhaps better airtime fairness implementation.