It’s been a while since the Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac rolled around, becoming available to consumers and businesses alike in December 2013. Since then, technology professionals have been working on an even faster Wi-Fi standard: 802.11ax Wi-Fi. Though it is still in development, this new standard aims to be stronger and faster than the current standard. What’s more, the new standard is rumored to work better in spaces with many devices. So your home and office should see a decrease in downtime because it will be able to better handle the demand of so many connected devices.
So, when can we expect a public release of this new standard? While it’s still in production, we won’t expect it to be publically available until sometime in 2019. Furthermore, devices will have to be constructed with antennae and other wireless connectivity parts that are compatible with the new standard, so even if you do go out and buy the new router, don’t expect your devices to connect to the network. So in reality, to take advantage of the speedy connection, you’ll just have to wait for new products, which should slowly be released in the weeks and months following the public release of 802.11ax Wi-Fi. We’ll just have to wait it out and get by with our current connection, which shouldn’t be too hard considering how fast the connection already is.
How does this new standard compare to the current one? 802.11ax will work with both 2.4 GHz (a slower connection but a signal with a better range) and 5 GHz (a faster connection, but with a more limited range) frequencies. 802.11ac, however, only operates at the 5 GHz frequency.
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