I have, let me see, seven Wi-Fi enabled devices currently running in my home office. That includes a tablet, a smartphone, five laptops, and a Roku streaming the last episode of Game of Thrones. That's about par. According to Parks Associates[1], the average home in 2017 had nine Wi-Fi equipped devices. Offices have far more. That means distributing the internet to so much gear has become a real problem. That's where Wi-Fi 6[2] comes in.
Wi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax, is like its predecessors, faster than the standards, which came before it. How much faster? It depends.
The new Wi-Fi standard could be between four to ten times faster than 802.11ac. That's the theory. In the real world, I expect it to be about 50% faster than the top-of-the-line networking gear you're using today. This means you'll see Gigabit speeds.
Keep in mind, though, that to see any speed increase both your client devices and your routers must be using Wi-Fi 6. When it comes to networking speeds -- from the days when we were running our networks over frozen yellow snake[3] with speeds of less than 10Mbps to today when our datacenters run at 10 Gbps speeds -- a network is only as fast as its slowest connection.
So, yes, it will be faster, but that's not all that big a deal. Where Wi-Fi 6 really shines is in distributing your