Even though there are currently no Wi-Fi 6E radios inside MacBooks, Wi-Fi Explorer Pro 3 offers complete 6 GHz visibility. Wi-Fi professionals have used Adrian’s Mac-based Wi-Fi troubleshooting tools for many years. In this blog, I will share information about many of the 6 GHz-capable software and hardware gadgets that all seasoned Wi-Fi professionals might add to their toolbox.įirst, I must shout-out to Adrian Granados of Intuitibits because Wi-Fi Explorer Pro 3 was the very first third-party application to support 6 GHz analysis. However, another foretelling indicator of the explosive growth for Wi-Fi 6E is the support for 6 GHz in third-party Wi-Fi design and diagnostic tools in the last few months. We are still at the very beginning at what I believe is a renaissance of technology innovation spurred by 6 GHz Wi-Fi. Currently, 61 smartphone models support Wi-Fi 6E.”Įnterprise networking vendors such as Extreme Networks began shipping Wi-Fi 6E access points in Q4 of 2021, with many more models debuting in 2022. And according to Claus Hetting of Wi-Fi Now, we have seen an explosion of available Wi-Fi 6E client devices: “In particular, the number of PCs released with Wi-Fi 6E capability (633) has been impressive (both laptop and desktop versions).
Wi-Fi 6E client devices with 6 GHz capabilities began to trickle into the marketplace in 2021. Over 60 countries across the Americas, Europe, and APAC already have or are considering new regulations for Wi-Fi use in 6 GHz. The availability of 6 GHz Wi-Fi began in the United States, and Wi-Fi 6E is spreading across the globe. So effectively, it triples the available unlicensed spectrum available for Wi-Fi. To put this in perspective, the new 6 GHz spectrum available for Wi-Fi is more than double the usable channels of the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels combined. This, my friends, is an enormous spectrum bonanza. As I have written in numerous blogs, Wi-Fi 6E brings us up to 1,200 MHz of new spectrum in the 6 GHz band.
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