if you're a gamer it seems like every new piece of tech 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 oh
so cool but one of the latest things you might want to actually pay attention to
is wi-fi 6 also known as 802.11 ax which
our friends at Intel asked us to talk about today now we've already done a
video explaining wi-fi 6 more generally which you can check out right up there
but today we're going to specifically talk about how it can benefit gamers who
don't 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 gigabits per second which is about three times as
fast as the previous generation however real world speeds won't be that high
somewhere around one and a half gigabits per second 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 it's like wi-fi took
caffeine pills you see wi-fi 6 supports an updated version of a feature called
moomimo and no it's not a pokemon although it may not seem like it a
router without moomimo 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 device's parents didn't teach it to be patient moomimo gets rid of this
bottleneck by allowing your router to communicate with multiple devices at
once and with wi-fi six up to eight devices on a network can take advantage
of this capability up from the four devices supported by wave 2 versions of
wi-fi 5 and its cousin wi-fi 555 and
because wi-fi 6 will support upstream and downstream data transfer
simultaneously on all eight devices laggy game behavior caused by your pc
having to wait for a slice of upstream time should be reduced especially if
someone else on your network is engaged in some kind of bandwidth heavy activity
like uploading every video they've taken of their cat because there aren't enough
cat videos on the internet karen another helpful feature is called ofdma and
although that's a mouthful the way it works is actually really cool and
totally legal do you know do you know how your Wi-Fi network lives
on a single channel well what odfma does is instead of just using the whole
channel to talk to just one device it divvies 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 you're
gaming pieces of data that need to be sent to or from your pc quickly to
prevent lagginess 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 now and google
stadia on the rise having a connection you can count on will become even more
important if you're planning the 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 however if you're tired of tripping over Ethernet cables when you
have to run to the bathroom while you queue for a match the extra cost
might just be worth it speaking of being worth it our sponsor
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