Like all technologies, Wi-Fi continues to develop, and the latest version - known as Wi-Fi 6E - provides much better performance, as well as new features that weren’t available with earlier forms of Wi-Fi. Many of the best routers and the best mesh systems that have been released in the last year or so are, therefore, now using this new Wi-Fi standard.
Some people still opt for one of the best Wi-Fi 6 routers that use the earlier Wi-Fi 6 standard (the older Wi-Fi 5 is now being phased out, while the forthcoming Wi-Fi 7 is still about a year away), especially since these Wi-Fi 6E routers are still relatively expensive. However, the trend towards working from home and increased reliance on streaming music and video has led an increasing number of people investing in these new Wi-Fi routers to provide better performance for their home or office networks.
