I was so excited when Apple finally gave us Wi-Fi 6E in the new 2023 MacBook Pros
but then I found out it was kind of garbage for two reasons but with that
for some people it actually might be amazing and I also found out that these
new machines are actually incredible for Wi-Fi speeds even without Wi-Fi 6E so
this is going to be probably the most detailed comparison because not only did
I upgrade my internet but I also bought a new Wi-Fi router to maximize the
speeds and I tested a bunch of different locations in multiple modes to give you
guys the best information on if these new machines are really going to help
you and who should actually upgrade your router and which one you should get now
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good luck now I've had gigabit internet at my house for a while now but I didn't
upgrade my router or modem because the 2021 16 inch and 14-inch MacBooks
couldn't even max out the signal that I had and my router cost me 350 dollars
it's very well rated people are still buying that one today but with these new
systems and Wi-Fi 6E I had to finally make the jump now this new ASUS router
it is very expensive but I wanted to maximize the capabilities of these
MacBooks so I finally made the jump but now I think it wasn't worth buying Wi-Fi
6E now I tested seven different locations throughout my house in my yard
and the first one was in my living room above my actual route outer now with the
old MacBook that could only do Wi-Fi six the fastest I used to get was 705
megabit per second but upgrading to the new router I actually jumped up to
841. that was nice but still not gigabit speeds Now using Wi-Fi 5 with the new
16-inch MacBook Pro I got 1099 megabit per second which blew my mind because it
was even faster than what I'm paying for and that's without Wi-Fi 6E switching
over to the six gigahertz band I got a thousand and Ninety Six slightly slower
but still my full rated speed and this is where I noticed the first issue even
though we hit that peak of 1096 the speed didn't stay there it ramped up to
that and then it slowed down finishing at about 800 megabit per second where
with Wi-Fi 5 it was consistently fast I switched the laptop to high power mode
because I thought maybe this is a battery saving issue because why else
would it speed up and then slow down but unfortunately I didn't notice any
differences it still would ramp up and then slow down so I updated to the
latest firmware on the router and the issue was still there now the reviews
for this router are amazing I couldn't find anybody else having this issue so I
thought it must be something with the new MacBooks either the way Apple
designed them or maybe it's a firmware issue or something like that but this is
something that is consistently happening at least half the time if not more so if
you guys know why this is happening please let me know in the comments now
the next location I tested was in my living room sitting on my couch here I
used to get 663 megabits per second it got a little faster with the new router
but with the new Macbook I got a thousand a hundred and fifty 59 just
with Wi-Fi 6 and then a thousand 162 with Wi-Fi 6E now how is this possible
that the new MacBooks are so much faster using the same exact router everything's
the same other than the MacBook using Wi-Fi six well I noticed that when it is
connecting in the details of my Wi-Fi instead of connecting a 1200 megabit per
second it is connecting a 2 400 megabit per second so the chip inside the laptop
is much better even if you only have Wi-Fi six so if you're buying one of
these new laptops you will get faster speeds if you don't change anything with
your internet setup and not only do the speeds matter but what matters more so
is if you are in a further area of your house or you are in your backyard and
you have a weak signal it will get much better which I will show you the next
spot I tested was in my home theater downstairs and I went from 620 megabits
per second all the way up to 904 with Wi-Fi 6 and 855 with Wi-Fi 6E so the
difference was pretty awesome now you also notice that the new router with the
old laptop actually got slower I don't know if that's a fluke or what happened
but with that Wi-Fi 6E was actually slightly slower with the new laptop than
Wi-Fi 6. but the next location I tested was the couch in the far side of my
basement here I used to get 569 megabit per second got a little faster the new
router but with a new laptop I got 802 which is 40 faster and faster than
even the best speeds I ever got close to the Wi-Fi router with the old laptop
which is great because I'm paying for this internet now you also might notice
that with Wi-Fi 6E and that spot it was actually slower
657 slower than the old laptop with Wi-Fi 6. now why is that happening well
that is because the way Wi-Fi 6 is designed is it is supposed to be super
fast but it actually doesn't penetrate through walls and Floors as good as
Wi-Fi five so the further you are and the more things in the way the slower it
gets and in some cases you just won't want to even use it now I have to pause
and give you guys a major benefit of Wi-Fi 6E and the six gigahertz band if
you're in a location that has a bunch of other Wi-Fi signals and routers for
example apartments condos and very densely populated areas your Wi-Fi can
Clash with other people's Wi-Fi and having the six gigahertz band will
literally ignore those other signals and give you full performance where you
might have major slowdowns previously now in my case I have a big property so
that's not an issue but that's something to consider now the next location was
the furthest basement bedroom now here the fastest I ever got was 439 and if
you look at the rest of the results with the new router and the new Macbook it
actually did not get any faster which was a disappointment so if you have a
tough spot in your house in this case it's behind concrete you just might need
stronger antennas or a mesh system now one area where I really have issues is
in my backyard and my front yard a lot of times if I'm mowing the lawn I just
don't have a signal on my phone it's connected to Wi-Fi but stuff stops
playing and that's a disconnect and it sucks now the first area I tested was
the playhouse that I'm building that I'm still working on now previously the
fastest I got was 97 megabit per second upgrading to a new router with slightly
faster 102 but that doesn't tell the whole story now you may have noticed
that I haven't been talking about upload load speeds and that's because my
internet doesn't have fast uploads the fastest rated for is 15 megabit per
second so pretty much everywhere I get that until I go outside now in this
Playhouse the fastest I would get is 5 megabit per second upload which is very
slow and that went up to 14 megabit per second so that's almost three times
faster it was a really nice boost especially if you have security cameras
up or anything else now with the new Macbook I went up to 127 as far as
download for Wi-Fi 6 and the upload was 15 which is great but with Wi-Fi 6E I
couldn't even get a signal out there now sometimes it would connect to Wi-Fi 60
but the internet wouldn't work and then it would stall out and wait and
disconnect it sucked and the last spot I tested was my front yard where I have a
security camera hung up but it has Wi-Fi issues now previously the fastest speed
I would get is 17 megabit per second that jumped up to 24 just with the new
router but as far as the upload it went from four all the way up to 15 which is
great because the camera needs to upload the video footage so that I can watch it
so that was awesome now with the new laptops I got 36 megabit per second as
far as download and once again 15 for the upload which is awesome but with
Wi-Fi 6E once again I had no signal at all because it's going through multiple
walls to go outside now that just kind of killed the whole idea of Wi-Fi 60 for
me just because the Wi-Fi 6 was so fast with the new laptops that even with
gigabit I didn't even need Wi-Fi 6E and the Wi-Fi 60 routers are twice as
expensive as Wi-Fi six so what I learned from all of this is one apple didn't
tell us that the Wi-Fi 6 itself got twice as fast as far as the maximum
connection speed and that with that update itself you don't really need
Wi-Fi 6E unless you have some crazy two gigabit 10 gigabit which almost nobody
has and with that the Wi-Fi 6E it just doesn't go very far and sometimes it can
also cause issues so my recommendation for all of you guys is one if you're
struggling with internet speed and you're considering upgrade to a new
Macbook Pro if you get one of these new 14 or 16 inches that's going to help you
a lot and two if you do want to upgrade your router and you have multiple walls
and you're dealing with signal issues well you don't even need to buy a Wi-Fi
6E router like I did for a lot of money so I'm impressed with the new connection
speed but not really with Wi-Fi 6E so you guys let me know your thoughts down
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