WHY I SPENT A BUNDLE ON A WI-FI 6 ROUTER FOR MY WORK-FROM-HOME SETUP: SPEED, SPEED, SPEED.

As a long-time freelancer and work-from-homer, I’ve owned a lot of routers in my quest for the speediest and most pervasive possible Wi-Fi. I had the original Apple AirPort, followed by the AirPort Extreme, the Linksys WRT3200ACM, and most recently, the Netgear Orbi RBK50.

Each time I replaced my router, the speeds and coverage boost was measurable but relatively muted. The jump from 801.11n (Wi-Fi 4) to 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) was noticeable, but not monumental. And upgrading to a mesh router was easy, but it didn’t deliver a huge leap in  I was using previously (I had configured one AirPort as a router, and a second as a range