So you thinking to upgrade your existing router to wifi 6? Well consider this one tip before you make a big splurge on a brand new fancy wifi 6 router with all sort of bells and whistles.
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Check all the existing wifi devices in your house, if anyone of those devices work on 2.4ghz and 5ghz band then your latest wifi 6 router won’t be able to run on pure wifi 6 network to make it to work. Yes you read it right all the devices in your home need to be wifi-6 compatible to be able to reach wifi-6 speeds.
If anyone device in your home is not wifi-6 ready then without that your router will have to rollback to old wifi protocol of one AC 5ghz wifi network and one N wifi 2.4ghz network similar to current wifi-5 router setup you have.
If you are jumping from old single band router or non-working or bad router then it makes all the sense to upgrade to best wifi 6 router only. However if you making the upgrade purely to taste wifi 6 speeds while your existing AC dual band router is good enough for most of the tasks then better make sure the devices at your home are wifi-6 compatible.
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