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Upgrade to Wifi 6 now, or wait for 6E price drop? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
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I currently have a Netgear Orbi mesh system with two satellites that I'd like to upgrade. It's the first-gen Orbi, with only 3 ethernet ports and one useless USB port. I've eliminated as many 2.4Ghz devices from my network as possible, and moved as many devices as I can to ethernet. My goals are to move to modern wifi to support things like game future streaming as much as possible.

The Asus RT-AX88U Pro is currently like $230 on amazon, so I was thinking of going with that.

I'd rather go straight to 6E, of course, but it seems like the "best" routers are in the $400 range.

What would you do?

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

What is your iSP speed wired? Getting a faster wifi setup than your connection to the internet is mostly useless. And what client devices do you have that can do WiFi6?

You could probably just get an access point like a TP link EAP670 ($134 on Amazon) they have wifi6. Set it up with the same SSiD as your network. I have one covering about 1400 sq feet of my upper floor most of the lower plus my garage and yard at 940Mbps on a 1Gbps iSP connection.

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