Wi-Fi 6 is the general name given to the IEEE 802.11ax wireless standard. Approximately every five years, a new standard like this is released and new devices come out that support it.
What is 802.11ax Wi-Fi?
Like all previous wireless standards, the goal of this one is to make Wi-Fi faster and more reliable. There’s still an access point that delivers Wi-Fi to all the devices that connect to it. That’s not changing, but there are a few improvements with Wi-Fi 6 over older standards:
If you’re familiar with wireless standards, you’ve probably seen other letters after 802.11. With the introduction of Wi-Fi 6, which is used to describe 802.11ax because it’s the 6th version, we can now assign a version number to the older standards:
This naming convention makes it easier to tell which Wi-Fi technologies are newer than others.
