Honestly, this only really helps people in rural areas. The vast majority of urban 5GHz implementations are at 80MHz - 6GHz does allow for 160MHz channelization, but at 320MHz the attenuation is so great that most homes will require multiple APs to actually hit appropriate MCS indexes.
kotaKat•23h ago
That's why it's been normalized to buy five of those mesh WiFi routers and shove them all over your house, everybody's signal be damned.
avidiax•19h ago
Having lots of lower powered routers is actually better for interference.
MacOS won't roam properly unless the signal from the connected AP drops below -75db, so cranking the power on all your APs will give you worse performance if you move around.
lxgr•5h ago
That's only on non-steered roaming though, right? I believe Apple devices have long supported AP/network-side steering.
lxgr•5h ago
Since most devices these days only transmit as strongly as they need to, this is actually great for spectrum sharing.
chrisandchris•12h ago
Fot at home, I tend to stick with 2.4 GHz. It is slower, but with a <100 Mbit uplink to the internet, local speed does not matter. 2.4 does just work better with less APs and thicker walls.
SuperMouse•11h ago
I have at least 10 neighbours on each 2.4GHz channel.
lxgr•5h ago
This also only works if you're not living in an apartment building. Even then, there's Bluetooth and other things that don't share spectrum nicely with 802.11.
zylent•1d ago
kotaKat•23h ago
avidiax•19h ago
MacOS won't roam properly unless the signal from the connected AP drops below -75db, so cranking the power on all your APs will give you worse performance if you move around.
lxgr•5h ago
lxgr•5h ago
chrisandchris•12h ago
SuperMouse•11h ago
lxgr•5h ago