The latest comparative test of the difference between the performance of router routers and "access points" operating in the new sixth generation of "Wi-Fi" technology, and those working in the current fifth generation, demonstrated that the sixth generation devices achieve superior speed, performance and productivity ranging between 44.85% and 47. 44%, as a general average among the devices tested.
The test also demonstrated that the sixth generation devices have the ability to work perfectly efficiently with mobile phones, desktop and mobile devices and tablets working with "Wi-Fi" chipset from the fifth or sixth generations, with full efficiency, as the data routers and access points of the sixth generation recorded a maximum speed of 929.37 MB Secondly, with computers and phones operating on the sixth-generation "Wi-Fi" chips, and 498.5 Mbps with those working on the fifth-generation "Wi-Fi" chips.
These results came out from a comparative test that was done in the laboratories of the networkworld.com network specialized in information and communication network technologies, and aimed to find out whether the data routers and access points that started to reach the markets recently, and works with the sixth generation of Wi-Fi technology, It is already achieving performance rates advertised by companies.
«Routers» devices
According to the results, the tests were conducted on four "routers" devices, which are considered the first routers of data paths, and they are from four companies: "Cisco", "Extreme", "Ingenis" and "Miraki". These devices support communication via the techniques of "Y" Wi-Fi »with computers, telephones and various devices, equipped with Wi-Fi chipsets from the fifth and sixth generations. Therefore, during the tests, the performance of the routers were measured with phones and computers, some of which work in the fifth generation, and others in the sixth generation.
tests results
The tests revealed that the "Wi-Fi" devices operating in the sixth generation of "Wi-Fi" recorded a general superiority that ranged between 44.85% and 47.44% compared to the fifth generation devices, and this includes the general average difference for both the speed and coverage range, stability and efficiency of performance and stability of the signal, And accommodate a larger number of devices connected simultaneously, in addition to the speed of data transmission that reached 929.37 MB per second with the sixth generation devices, and 498.5 MB with the fifth generation.
But at the level of each of the devices participating in the test separately, it was found that the "Router Ingenis" achieved the highest rate of coverage speed and scope with the sixth-generation devices, while the "Router Xtreme" device, achieved the best results with the devices operating in the fifth generation, especially With the phone «Galaxy S5», which achieved with him the rate of data exchange of 498.5 Mbps, while «Router Engine» 485.45 Mbps with the same phone.
"Cisco Router" achieved the lowest productivity with computers and fifth-generation phones, as it recorded an exchange rate of 122.17 Mbps, but it recorded the highest productivity with adapters of "Ubitt" model in the case of sixth-generation computers and phones. The Router Ingenis achieved a data exchange rate of 929.37 between it and the iPhone 11.
The analysts who performed the test said that these results express a specific use in certain circumstances, but in actual operation, the new "Routers" devices can achieve better or worse results than what was achieved in the tests.
Mechanism of tests
The tests were conducted using a program specialized in measuring the efficiency of "routers" and communications networks, which is "IX Charriot" program, and the test network consisted of the "test router", the desktop computer to record measurements, peripherals from mobile phones and Wi-Fi adapters that It was placed over distances of more than 20 feet from the "router", with a hollow wooden door that obscures the line of sight, and the network was operated with AES and WPA2 security protocol for encryption, as well as the use of a 5 GHz communication channel, At 80 MHz, the test router was connected to the experimental computer responsible for recording measurements via “GB Ethernet” cables, and then the experiments were performed in a reciprocal and different way, between configurations of the fifth and sixth generation devices.