Welcome to WiFi 6!

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in “Through the Looking Glass” is taught a lesson by the Queen: “…We must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” They call it the Red Queen Effect and it is turning out to be a mantra of wireless communications in home and office.

We were only recently offered home WiFi speeds of 100 MBPS by broadband service providers. And now we are being told: ‘That’s all history. Get ready to work (and play) with 1000 MBPS — that’s 1 GBPS.’ Gigabit Internet is here. Just weeks ago in this space, I had shared a heads-up that a new avatar of the wireless communication standard to be called WiFi 6 was coming soon. Well, soon is now: