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alongside IPv6 for the ISP's to ignore.

How many ISP's support IPv6 with their cheapo crap routers that we get to use?

What incentive, apart from a huge increase in monthly charges will there for them to give us WiFi 6?

TBH, I'd rather have a decent configurable firewall in their router before WiFi 6.

ISPs still provide routers?

Haven’t used one in.... forever.

ISPs will sell WiFi6 as Corvus proof, and people will flock to upgrade.

(Just as soon as the price is the same so they can team more profit)

At home, my laptop appears to connect to my wifi, but it doesn't actually work. I've tried using a repeater, but that makes my phone jump randomly between networks (even when one is sitting right next to it).

Even in a best-case scenario, there's a wide area that's close enough to the AP to make a phone try to use wifi and not use the cellular network, but far enough that the wifi doesn't actually work. If you happen to be standing there, you'll just be disconnected, and drain the phone battery.

A friend used to connect his first-floor desktop to the DSL router on the ground floor, but after changing the router it's no longer working. None of these issues ever produce any useful error messages; most of the time it just declares to be working, except that everything times out.

By comparison, my cellphone's 4G always works, if it's in a place that's covered.

https://xkcd.com/1865/

So, does this new AX standard actually, y'know, work?

@Filippo - is the country code correct on your router?

The 4G where I live is very good and I tend to have the WiFi on my phone turned off.

This works fine until I get a system update that refuses to download until it can go over WiFi to save me from "unexpected additional costs".

I don't get an option to download over 4g anyway. This means that I have to park the phone close to the router.

I cannot get "unexpected additional costs" from downloading without WiFi. I have "unlimited data". I suppose it is not infinite and if I had high resolution Netflix running 24/7 I might get an email or two by the end of the month. I don't so a couple of GB is not going to make any difference. I can't be the only person with this. I am sure I had the option in the past but, as I was not unlimited then, I didn't do it

Now I want to download updates over the PhoneCo internet, it won't let me. Is this the fault of Google, phone manufacturer or telephone company?

You need the hardware in your machine to support it, which probably won't appear in your work machine for at least a few years.

Most people I know have personal machines between 4-9 years old so no way they will support the standard without swapping out the wifi card.

You need the additional 1.2GHz bandwidth from the 6GHz band That was recently allocated to WiFi (despite the LTE scum making a last-minute grab for it). Obviously it hasn’t been implemented yet by chipset and RF PHY makers, and it’s US-only for now.

All domestic Internet connections have a maximum upload speed a fraction of the download speed.

Shouldn't the ISPs be sending out online updates to increase the upload speed (even if it means decreasing the download speed)?

.... but then all they hit the 20/1Mb ADSL router because a fight between telcos led to a stop of the FTTH rollout...

I bet my ac wifi will still be usabe for a while...

I came here to post something very similar: a length of Cat5e between your router and your desk will give much higher bandwidth.

And it leaves the aether free to connect those mobile/LAN-socket-free devices (alternatively, free to get cut off by the microwave oven you're using to reheat your lunch).

Not before time, as it's clear that most people doing mobile-phone or even laptop video calls for TV news, and so on, are relying on crappy wifi, given the choppiness and poor quality of most of what we're seeing. But at least it's encouraging to see that more people now seem to be getting the message that portrait video in a video-conferencing or for-TV context is for knobheads.

I doubt even a small percent of home workers are going to go out and buy a new router that supports WiFi 6 unless their employer pays for it. A large majority of people use the low end free router that their ISP provides, they plug it in and only ever think about it if their internet stops working and they need to reboot it.

Plus even if their employer was to pay for a new router there is a good chance they will also need to invest in new PC's and phone that support WiFi 6 if they are running devices 12 month or older.

Fortunately I had the house CAT 6 wired when I had major building work done about a decade back. Combined with a 72/20 Mb/s FTTC link from Zen we've been able to run two simultaneous video conference sessions with no problems (at our end). It's been noticeable that friends and colleagues with crap WiFi have real problems even at reduced video resolution.

It might, but I wouldn't count on it. The larger companies should have the IT chops to allow people to work from home, but will they have to will to do it is the question. I'm thinking not, because having the employees on-site is generally better from all points of view, not to mention security. Having all those people working remotely must be giving the heebee-jeebees to IT admins everywhere.

Then, of course, you have all the companies that simply can't work from home : plumbers, construction workers, supermarket employees (and stores/restaurants/bars in general), medical companies, etc. Basically, if your job is to deal with the public, you're not working from home.

Finally, you have all the consultants in various capacities. They can't work remotely because the clients want to see them there. Sure, right now I have customers allowing me to work remotely, but that's because they don't have the choice - there's work to be done and it can't wait. When the confinement is over, I've already been told in no uncertain terms that I will lose my access. Security first.

So no, I don't see that there is going to be a change in the way we work, globally speaking. Yes, some companies will realize that they can reduce their office space requirements by having people work from home but, little by little, the manager paranoia is going to creep in and the question of are they actually working is going to haunt them. And that will be the end of the experiment.

I've worked from home since 2005. I generally go into the Office at most twice a month. my customers don't need to see me in the office as they are all over the world. Japan, Brazil, Middle East, India, USA etc.

My employer likes people to work from home. Saves them lots of mostly unused office space. My manager is in Atlanta so we video conferece every two days. I have all the kit I need to do my work. This current situation has really made no change to the way I work.

Naturally, every company is different but I really would not want to have to commute again. I did the spam can trip into Victoria for twenty years. Life if a lot less stressfull since I stopped the slog into the office every day.

I've been working with an Ethernet cable. Every Apple device I've seen in the past 15+ years has insane WiFi latency and packet loss. I know exactly who is video conferencing at home by wire or WiFi. I would not expect WiFi 6 to fix that.