WiFi 6E

ibose

Skilled
Curious as to if I have a Wifi 6E router and a compatible client which can receive in 6E, who or what is going to stop the transmission and reception at home ? Or is that going to interfere with some other signal ?
 

john1911

Adept
ibose said:
Curious as to if I have a Wifi 6E router and a compatible client which can receive in 6E, who or what is going to stop the transmission and reception at home ? Or is that going to interfere with some other signal ?
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I think the device would refused to transmit the frequency at which 6E operates. I feel you would be able to circumvent this by setting US as the location in router settings.
 

ibose

Skilled
john1911 said:
I think the device would refused to transmit the frequency at which 6E operates. I feel you would be able to circumvent this by setting US as the location in router settings.
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Just what I thought. Let's see what others have to add.
 

vishalrao

Global Moral Police
Skilled
I have TPLink xe75 which I bought off Amazon at launch and it apparently has USA region firmware and it has 6ghz band enabled.

But officially not allowed in India so for example my pixel 7 pro doesn't show the 6e ssid but my asus zenbook s13 laptop with mediatek WiFi chip rz616 similar to 7921 I guess connects fine in clean installed windows and Linux latest kernel too.

Not sure if currently sold xe75 will be USA firmware or what.
In my xe75 basic web UI I see region option but it's read only set to USA.
 

dissel

Skilled
Bought TPLink Archer AXE75 Nov 2022, This router comes with 6GHz Network Indicator along with 2.4 and 5 GHz, Around March 2023 I got a cleint device which comes with 6E (6GHz) capability as per spec sheet. Till date that device never able to find (6GHz) 6E SSID of the router.
 

vishalrao

Global Moral Police
Skilled
@dissel which device???

Even my moto edge 30 and pixel 7 pro advertise 6E spec but don't display the axe75 6E ssid... My laptop does.
 

dissel

Skilled
vishalrao said:
@dissel which device???

Even my moto edge 30 and pixel 7 pro advertise 6E spec but don't display the axe75 6E ssid... My laptop does.
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It's the Fire TV Cube Latest Model, but during this post when I was looking at the spec of the Amazon IN - it clearly mentioned that it supports the wifi ax version which is the WiFi 6 version @ 5GHz channel.

I'm confused, I'm 100% sure it was marketed as a WiFi 6E / 6GHz device.
 

ze_cook

Disciple
dissel said:
It's the Fire TV Cube Latest Model, but during this post when I was looking at the spec of the Amazon IN - it clearly mentioned that it supports the wifi ax version which is the WiFi 6 version @ 5GHz channel.

I'm confused, I'm 100% sure it was marketed as a WiFi 6E / 6GHz device.
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The us version is advertised as 6E. They probably removed all mentions of 6E for compliance/false advertising reasons.
 

bookoon

Disciple
Thanks for all your responses.
The situation arises to a new question from my side... Is it worth it to wait when 6 GHz will be freed up for personal use by Indian authorities or "normal" wifi 6 is good enough?