Last year I reviewed the amazing but extraordinarily expensive Netgear Orbi RBKE963. It is the first and only quad-band WiFi 6E mesh system on the market (there are some quad-band routers) and therefore offers the best performance compared to anything else out there. Netgear is now launching the Orbi 960 router part of the system…
The Nighthawk A8000 was announced late last year but has only just become available in the UK. This is the first official WiFi 6E USB adaptor to launch in the Western market and the easiest way to add the latest WiFi 6E tech to your desktop or laptop. A USB dongle isn’t my first choice…
Announced back in January, the ECW336 is the first WiFi 6E access point from EnGenius. It features the Qualcomm Networking Pro 1210 platform and is a tri-band access point using the latest 6Ghz band. Built-in security includes features such as WPA3 Enterprise with radius for stronger encryption and authentication. This also has a 5 GbE…
With the UK gigabit Internet rollout finally making some progress and many of us working from home, our older WiFi routers and mesh systems may start to struggle to provide the best speeds possible. WiFi 6E is the latest WiFi standard and can easily provide faster than gigabit throughput thanks to the new 6Ghz channel….
The Nighthawk RAXE500 was announced at CES 2021, and it has been available in the US for a while now. Recently it has become available in the UK. This is the new flagship gaming router from Netgear and features the new WiFi 6E technology, which can broadcast using the new 6Ghz band. Most new laptops…
WiFi 6E has been off to a bit of a slow start, but it looks like this is the year where manufacturers ramp things up and bring prices down. Last week, the Ubiquiti UniFi U6-Enterprise was announced, and this is the first relatively affordable WiFi 6E device that has launched I am aware of. Priced…
The Netgear Orbi RBKE960 WiFi 6E mesh system was announced back in October and was the first mesh system on the market to implement a quad bands radio. The benefit of this is that you have one dedicated 5Ghz band for backhaul, then 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz and the new 6Ghz band used by WiFi 6E for…
I should hopefully be reviewing my first WiFi 6E router soon. Many new laptops are compatible with the WiFi 6E standard, but older models will be limited to either WiFi 6 or WiFi 5. I have previously upgraded my old Dell XPS 15 but rarely use that now, so to prepare for the review, I…
At CES 2022, Netgear launched its latest RAXE300 Wi-Fi 6E router, which is a more affordable version of last years RAXE500. Asus, on the other hand, have gone the other way, launching what has to be the highest specced consumer-focussed router on the market. The new Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 is a quad-band Wi-Fi 6E…
While Wi-Fi 6 may offer significant speed improvements on the current 5Ghz band, the performance is often held back due to congested Wi-Fi networks and pesky radar, creating the need for DFS (Dynamic frequency selection) channels. Wi-Fi 6E is the next-gen Wi-Fi we have really been waiting for. This expands the Wi-Fi network into the…
Netgear has gone all out for their latest mesh WiFi 6 system. Featuring the new WiFi 6E standard, the mesh system utilizes three different frequencies, 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz and 6Ghz. The problem with a WiFi 6E mesh system is that you need to use one band for the backhaul. If the system shares a backhaul channel…