This post explains what Wi-Fi 6 is and how to tell if your phone supports it. Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) is a family of wireless network protocols. It is based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards. Wi-Fi is mostly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access. It does that by allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves. These are the most widely used computer networks in the world.
Wi-Fi is used globally in home and small office networks to link desktop and laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, smart TVs, printers, and smart speakers together. Wifi connections are also enabled by smart devices called wireless routers used to connect multiple devices to the Internet.
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What is Wi-Fi 6?
Wifi 6 is a significant upgrade over previous generations. However, the differences may not seem instantly clear to the ordinary user. These changes may not considerably change the way we use wireless routers or wireless networking. Though rather consist of many incremental improvements that pile up to be a major upgrade. The first big change is that Wi-Fi 6 allows for potentially faster connection speeds.
Faster Wi-Fi means the better upload and download speeds (or throughput) due to the increased bandwidth afforded by Wi-Fi 6. This is becoming increasingly important as file sizes continue to increase, along with the higher data demands of streaming high-quality video. 9.6 Gbps is the maximum throughput of Wi-Fi 6 across multiple channels.
How to tell if your phone supports Wi-Fi 6
- Firstly; you could check out your smartphone’s specifications on websites that review phones. Among these specs include the wifi version the phone could be using, For example, the gsmarena website.
- Secondly; you can figure out whether your smartphone supports WiFi 6 by simply checking on its official specs website from its manufacturer or seller. You can get this from the vendor’s own product page under the specifications tab.
That is how you can tell if your phone supports Wi-Fi 6.