WHICH Wi-Fi 6 ROUTER SHOULD YOU BUY?

1 How many Ethernet ports do you need?

Fewer than you might imagine. Some devices, like powerline networking kits and internet-connected telephones, will still require a physical connection to your router. But if you’ve been using a wired connection in preference to wireless simply because it’s faster, it might be time to cut the cable.

While Wi-Fi 6 still can’t match the speed of the fastest Gigabit Ethernet connections, its maximum theoretical data-transfer rates exceed anything that you’ll need, and we found that what we experienced in practice was better than anything Ethernet could deliver in our home.

Transferring a single 500MB file via Ethernet from our laptop to the drive attached to our router took 45.7 seconds, which equates to a data rate of 87.5Mbps. The 500GB folder of 1,829 files