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COMMUNICATIONS HORIZONS

As you peruse your local electronics store or scan the online sites this holiday season, the new thing in home electronics area this year will be Wi-Fi 6®. What is it and why should you care? Let’s see if we can dig out something from the noise.

Why Another New Wi-Fi Standard?

In short, we’re connecting everything but the sink (and maybe even that) to the internet. The current generation of Wi-Fi routers and devices weren’t designed for dozens or hundreds of devices

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