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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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[–] [S, B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I’m on gigabit Ethernet, so realistically 850mbps. Note though that I do a lot of in-home game streaming (although currently just on consoles, which are 1080p/60 but relatively low bitrate) and Plex streaming.

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