This essay edited by MiniTool corporation focuses on the WiFi 6E support of the coming Windows 11. It tells what benefits will Win11 users get through WIFI 6E and how advanced Wifi 6E is. Just spend two minutes reading the following content and you will know the details!
One of the feature-specific requirements for Windows 11 is Wi-Fi 6E. Win 11 requires new WLAN (wireless local-area networks) IHV hardware and driver and a WiFi 6E capable AP/router.
Windows 11 Wi-Fi 6E Support
WiFi 6E is coming to the Windows ecosystem, allowing Windows OEMs and ecosystem partners to deliver leading-edge Wi-Fi on new Windows computers. Wifi 6E will enable Windows 11 to deliver better wifi experiences via faster speeds, greater capacity, reduced latency, as well as better security.
The Windows 11 WiFi 6E support comes as OEMs are shipping WIFI 6E capable Windows PCs and the first wifi 6e capable access points and mesh devices are also commercially available.
What Is Wi-Fi 6E?
WiFi 6E is the 6 GHz of IEEE 802.11ax-2021 or 802.11ax, which is an IEEE standard for WLANs and the successor of 802.11ac. There is another specification of 802.11ax called Wi-Fi 6 (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz).
About Advanced WiFi 6E
Both Wi-Fi 6E and WiFi 6 are marked by the WiFi Alliance and they are known as high-efficiency Wifi for the overall improvements to Wi-Fi 6 clients under dense environments. IEEE 802.11ax is designed to operate in license-exempt bands between 1 and 7.125 GHz, including the common 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz as well as the wider 6 GHz band (5.925 GHz to 7.125 GHz in the US).
IEEE 802.11ax is aimed at enhancing throughput-per-area in high-density scenarios like corporate offices, dense residential apartments, or shopping malls. Whereas the nominal data rate improvement against 802.11ac is only 37%, the overall throughput improvement (over an entire network) is 400%, and the transferring latency is 75% lower. Thus, it is called high efficiency.
The quadrupling of overall throughput is enabled by higher spectral efficiency. The key feature underpinning 802.11ax is OFDMA (orthogonal frequency-division multiple access) which is equivalent to the cellular technology used in WiFi.
Other improvements on spectrum utilization are dependability improvements of power consumption and security protocols like WPA3 (Wi-Fi protected access 3) and Target Wake Time, better power-control methods to avoid interference with neighboring networks, higher-order 1024-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), as well as down-link of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) to further increase throughput.
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