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    FIVE REASONS YOU SHOULD UPGRADE TO Wi-Fi 6

    Jan 19, 2022 5 minutes

    1 Connect more devices without bottlenecks

    Ofcom’s latest survey of British broadband (www.snipca.com/40466) calculated the UK’s average download speed to be 50.4Mbps. At that rate, you could download an album in 20 seconds, and a high-definition film in less than five minutes.

    Those times are already impressive, and upgrading to Wi-Fi 6 probably wouldn’t reduce them because Wi-Fi 5 already supports a theoretical maximum of 3,500Mbps (3.5Gbps), and even Wi-Fi 4 supports 600Mbps. So why splash out on Wi-Fi 6 and its maximum of 9,608Mbps (9.6Gbps)?

    Well, it should ease any bottlenecks in your home. Imagine that every device on your network is connected to the router by a pipe, and that rather than working with data, they send and receive water. It doesn’t matter how

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