Most people are surprised by the relatively slow Internet environment when they travel abroad. This is a part that can be felt quite a bit in wireless Wi-Fi in hotels, including 4G and 5G. It is true that there are many places that provide free Wi-Fi in public places such as airports as well as restaurants and cafes, but it is too slow even if it is slow. quite a bit surprised. As much as that, it is surprisingly fast in the domestic Internet environment we are currently in. In Wi-Fi spaces that can be used for free, such as homes, offices, cafes, and restaurants, no matter how late it is, 10Mbps, and if it is a little faster, it is about 100Mbps.
▲ Monthly price of wired Internet service that can be checked on the KT website
What determines the speed of a wired/wireless router is, in a big way, what kind of service you receive from the telecommunications company. Unless it is a newly built apartment, most of them will be receiving 100Mbps service. Depending on the condition of the contract, they pay a monthly fee of 11,000 won to 20,000 won.
If you are a little more greedy here, the next step is naturally 500Mbps, 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps and 10Gbps speeds, and it is true that these prices are within the price range that you can try if you are a little greedy.
▲ Prices of various wired Internet services that can be checked through SKT T-World
The reason why there are so many types of wired Internet prices provided by telecommunication companies is that first, you might think that the difference is due to speed, but it is because it includes rental of wired IPTV and wired/wireless routers. . Whatever the reason, if we receive Internet service from an external carrier, we must use at least one modem + wired/wireless router provided by the carrier to establish an overall Internet environment in the office or at home.
■ The current Wi-Fi standard is the coexistence of Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6.
To be precise, it seems that these two Wi-Fi standards are actually being used interchangeably. It is good to understand the old and new Wi-Fi, but Wi-Fi 5 is now a standard that has been completely popularized, and Wi-Fi 6 is just starting, but the biggest reason is the financial part, that is, the price.
As explained above, in order to get high speed, you need to receive expensive carrier internet service, but if you follow Intel’s standard Wi-Fi 6 specification, you need to get at least 1Gbps internet service to ensure full performance. In addition to this, the price of routers is low and expensive. Recently, routers supporting Wi-Fi 6, although there are differences among manufacturers, have started from the early 100,000 won, and have come down to the point where you can pay a certain price.
However, here, Wi-Fi 6E products using an additional 6GHz channel, which produce higher speeds than recently, are gradually appearing, and among current Wi-Fi products, only relatively high-end products are being released and sold. What are the advantages of purchasing this product?
■ EFM ipTIME AX11000-6E wired/wireless router
▲ Brief specifications: Wired/Wireless Gigabit AXE11000 (Wi-Fi 6E) Highest wireless speed: 4804Mbps Router type Power plug type Broadcom Quad Core 1.8GHz 1.8 GHz RAM: 1GB FLASH: 128MB WAN: 1 port (2.5 Gigabit) LAN: 4 ports ( Gigabit) USB 3.0: 2 Tri-Band Antennas: 8 Mesh MU-MIMO IPTV Support WOL Mobile Management App VPN QoS Beamforming Multi-SSID Mobile UI OFDMA Controller Wireless Agent Wired Agent 2 Years Free
▲ In addition to the design shared by IPTime, the package configuration is not much different, but the included adapter is a high-end product that produces an output of about 60W at 12V, 5A.
▲ As an accessory that is basically included, a LAN cable is included in addition to the user manual. Unlike other IP-time routers, a high-end CAT.6 cable is included.
▲ Out of a total of 8 independent antennas, 4 are used for 6GHz channels and 4 are used for 5.0GHz + 2.4GHz channels, and all products with 5dBi sensitivity were used.
■ Fast Wi-Fi speed through 6GHz channel
Currently, the smartphone that officially supports this Wi-Fi 6E is from Samsung’s Galaxy S23, and Apple is not yet supporting it on the iPhone. So, strictly speaking, a large number of smartphone users cannot use this Wi-Fi 6E. However, on the contrary, in laptops, Intel is rapidly raising the Wi-Fi standard over generations, and most of the products that can be purchased recently for more than 1 million won officially support Wi-Fi 6E. So it is rather easy to access on a laptop. It seems that Intel has a will to lead the technology in this wireless standard.
So, if you are currently in an environment where you can use this Wi-Fi 6E wired/wireless router, you can feel the fast speed not only because there is less cross talk with other external routers, or in most cases there is none.
■ The fastest IP-time wired/wireless router currently available, AX11000 6E
This product, introduced in today’s article, is equipped with a significant number of antennas among IPTime routers that have been released, and in addition to a high-performance processor, it is equipped with ample cache memory equipped with 128MB NAND flash and 1GB DDR3 memory, providing ample buffer size. It has a speed aspect, but it provides stable performance in a space that requires Wi-Fi multiple access. As much as that, it can be seen that the hardware preparation part was used generously to obtain fast speed.
