Wi-Fi 6 will help Gamer !

If you are a gamer it seems like every new piece attack on the PC market is trying to capture your attention from graphics cards with ever so slightly higher boost clocks to headset stands tricked out with RGB lighting.

Wi-Fi 6 will help Gamer !

Why Wi-Fi 6 Will CHANGE Gaming

 

If you are a gamer it seems like every new piece attack on the PC market is trying to capture your attention from graphics cards with ever so slightly higher boost clocks to headset stands tricked out with RGB lighting.

But one of the latest things you might want to pay attention to is Wi-Fi 6 also known as 802.11AX.

We are going to specifically talk about how it can benefit gamers who do not want to be tethered down by an Ethernet connection, figuratively, and literally.

Speed is one of the most obvious improvements of Wi-Fi 6 over previous generations of Wi-Fi the theoretical max bandwidth of a typical 2x2 connection is 2.4 Gbit/s which is about three times as fast as the previous generation.

 

However real-world speeds won't be that high somewhere around 1,5 Gbit/s might be more realistic and of course, you're going to be limited by however fast your internet connection is anyway unless you're playing on a wireless LAN, but the real benefit for gamers isn't just the extra speed to download large games but also how Wi-Fi 6 handles having multiple devices on the same network at once as well as improvements to latency and responsiveness.

 

Wi-Fi 6 supports an updated version of a feature called MU-MIMO it may not seem like it a router without MU-MIMO can only communicate with one device at a time meaning all the other devices on your network have to wait their turn and while it isn't exactly a long wait it can still make a difference especially if that devices parents didn't teach it to be patient.

MU-MIMO gets rid of this bottleneck by allowing your router to communicate with multiple devices at once and with Wi-Fi 6 up to 8 devices on a network and take advantage of this capability up from the 4 devices supported by wave two versions of Wi-Fi 5 and it's cousin Wi-Fi 555, and because Wi-Fi 6 will support upstream and downstream data transfer simultaneously on all eight devices leggy game behavior caused by your PC having to wait for a slice of upstream time should be reduced.

 

Another helpful feature is called OFDM a and although that's a mouthful the way it works is actually really cool and totally legal.

 

Do you know how your Wi-Fi network lives on a single channel well what OFDM does is instead of just using the whole channel to talk to just one device it divides up the channel into smaller sub-channels so that data can be transferred to multiple devices at one time.

The way the channels are chopped up depends on the needs of each device so if your gaming pieces of data that need to be sent to or from your PC quickly to prevent laggy nos can be prioritized over another user whose workload isn't as latency dependent such as a large file download?

So the bottom line for gamers is fewer dropped frames and more reliable connections that will keep you from lagging out or getting fragged if you're not playing over a wired connection and with cloud-based gaming services like PlayStation and Google stadia on the rise having a connection you can count on, will become even more important if you're planning to game without an expensive rig or console.

Unfortunately, Wi-Fi 6 will likely require you to buy new devices both a router and a wireless adapter or motherboard that support the new protocol.

 

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