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CNET
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- CNET
Wi-Fi 6E Brought Us the 6GHz Band: Here's What That Means for Your Wi-Fi
Our growing reliance on the internet means we need a stable, high-speed internet connection to do almost everything, from working to gaming. Although it's tempting to purchase the fastest internet plan possible, a lot more goes into a reliable internet connection than speed alone. The latest Wi-Fi standards are focused on reducing latency and making it easier to connect multiple devices to your router without compromising bandwidth. Wi-Fi 7 is the latest and fastest Wi-Fi standard, but plenty of Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E routers and devices still circulate the market. Whether you're shopping for a new router or looking to future-proof your home, you'll have to decide whether to invest in Wi-Fi 6 or 6E technology or wait for Wi-Fi 7 to become more affordable. If you're considering a Wi-Fi 6E router, you'll be hard-pressed to find a more efficient router at a competitive price (that is, until Wi-Fi 7 becomes more affordable). Here's everything you should know about Wi-Fi 6E before you sign up, according to the experts. What is Wi-Fi 6E? What makes it different from Wi-Fi 6? Simply put, Wi-Fi 6E is an extension of Wi-Fi 6; that's what the 'E' stands for. Locating local internet providers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers sets the standards for Wi-Fi technology with the goal of making Wi-Fi more efficient with every iteration. The Wi-Fi Alliance, a network of companies and manufacturers, certifies those standards. In 2020, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced Wi-Fi 6E, marking the group's first extension of an existing Wi-Fi technology. The only difference between Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E is that the extension offers an entirely new frequency band, the 6 gigahertz band. Previously, Wi-Fi only operated on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, so when the Federal Communications Commission opened the 6GHz band for unlicensed use in 2020, it was kind of a big deal. Wi-Fi Alliance That 6GHz band is more than twice as wide as the 5GHz band: It allows for seven additional 160 megahertz channels, effectively doubling bandwidth and lowering congestion. According to Luther Smith, technologist and director of Wireless Access Technology at CableLabs, the 6GHz band is like opening a much wider road for traffic during rush hour. 'If you get on a two-lane road, your experience is very bad during rush hour,' said Smith. 'You put that same amount of traffic on an eight-lane highway, you can move quickly, so your experience is better.' When the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced Wi-Fi 6, the standard was a huge step up from Wi-Fi 5. CNET tested early Wi-Fi 6 routers to find speeds 40 to 60% faster than the fastest speeds we'd ever measured with Wi-Fi 5 routers. The improvement is due to technologies like orthogonal frequency-division multiple access, or OFDMA, which allows for various users and devices to send data at once on the same frequency bands, and quadrature amplitude modulation, or QAM, which translates data over Wi-Fi. 'Anytime you either make broader channels or increase your QAM, you're inherently increasing the speed,' said Smith. Wi-Fi 6E includes those technologies and extends them to a third band, a feat that reduces channel congestion among the devices on your network and improves congestion among neighboring networks using the same channel spectrums. 'When you have a very large band, you can have multiple channels,' said Lili Hervieu, a principal architect of Wireless Access Technology at CableLabs. 'When in crowded environments where you have a lot of access points, they all work on the same channels, so it can be very congested.' Wi-Fi Alliance Like Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E is backward compatible. However, to take full advantage of that 6GHz band, you'll need to use a Wi-Fi 6E (or Wi-Fi 7) device. On the plus side, you won't have to worry about interference or congestion from non-Wi-Fi 6E-compatible devices in your home on the 6GHz band. If you're curious whether your devices are Wi-Fi 6E-compatible, you can use the Wi-Fi Alliance's product finder to make sure. How does Wi-Fi 6E compare to Wi-Fi 7? Wi-Fi 7 is the latest Wi-Fi standard. It operates on the same tri-bands as Wi-Fi 6E, but with a few key differences. First, Wi-Fi 7 has much faster speed capabilities than Wi-Fi 6. The 6GHz band is effectively doubled with Wi-Fi 7 technology, allowing for much more bandwidth and a faster maximum speed. Additionally, while Wi-Fi 6 (and 6E) technology allowed access to multiple bands, devices could only connect to one band at a time. Wi-Fi 7 improves on that by offering Multi-Link Operation, which allows devices to connect to different bands simultaneously. There are a few caveats with Wi-Fi 7 technology. The first is that although it's often advertised as capable of supporting up to 46 gigabits per second, that's an unrealistic standard for home internet. 'There is always the maximum throughput that is advertised and the realistic throughput,' said Hervieu. 'It's not required, it's very expensive, it consumes a lot of power, so it's not realistic.' Like Wi-Fi 6E, you'll need a Wi-Fi 7 device to fully benefit from the 6GHz band. That said, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 are both backward compatible. You can still use the technology with a device that isn't Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 compatible, you just won't get the full experience. Should you switch to Wi-Fi 6E? OK, so Wi-Fi 6E is an improved version of Wi-Fi 6. Should you invest in a Wi-Fi 6E router? That depends on situational factors like your budget and how much internet you use, but Wi-Fi 6E offers great home network benefits and is a positive step toward future-proofing your home. Buying a new router is a process we don't take lightly at CNET. If you have enough tech and bandwidth-hogging devices (or users), you should probably be updating your router every handful of years. It's definitely true that the Wi-Fi technology offered by Wi-Fi 7 outpaces Wi-Fi 6E, but until more Wi-Fi 7 devices become readily available and more affordable, a Wi-Fi 6E router is a sure step toward improving your Wi-Fi.
Time of India
10-05-2025
- Science
- Time of India
Engineering student recognized as IEEE STEM Champion
Mangaluru: Annapurna Shenoy , a third-year electronics and communication engineering student at Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM), Bantakal, Udupi, was recognised as an IEEE STEM Champion , a prestigious global title awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).Out of 135 global applicants, 28 volunteers were selected for this honour. The IEEE STEM Champion Programme recognises individuals who have made significant contributions to pre-university STEM education through impactful outreach initiatives in their communities. These champions play a key role in promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by engaging with schools, educators, and students to spark early interest in these a champion, Shenoy will connect local learners with global resources, organise STEM outreach programmes , and inspire the next generation of innovators and problem-solvers.
Sydney Morning Herald
29-04-2025
- Science
- Sydney Morning Herald
How this Australian particle accelerator highlights a crisis facing AUKUS
In another room, physicists shoot nitrogen atoms into diamonds, creating the 'qubit' building blocks of future quantum computers. Global scientists have the accelerator booked out for months in advance. And the accelerator plays a crucial role in a more esoteric quest: the hunt for new elements. How to make a new element The accelerator room's a riot of coloured wires, chrome pipes, Ferrari red particle-boosting magnets and metal chambers where the sped-up ions smash into their target. Hinde built much of the custom equipment in this room himself. He's one of the scientists who have gathered at the brutalist beacon of the accelerator's building to celebrate a milestone recognition award from the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It's the third Australian facility to receive the honour, alongside the famous Parkes Dish and the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station. Hinde was part of the international team that confirmed the addition of a new element to the periodic table: element 117, or tennessine. It was made by smashing together calcium-48 and berkelium-249. The intense process produced four atoms of tennessine which fell apart in milliseconds. Element 118, oganesson, has also been recognised after five atoms were painstakingly produced across multiple experiments. 'But how do you make element 119 and 120? Turns out we, the scientific community, don't actually know,' Hinde says. The method of smashing calcium-48 with a heavy element has reached its practical limit because, to create element 119, you'd need einsteinium; an element discovered in the debris of a hydrogen bomb test that's quick to decay and can only be manufactured in tiny quantities (nanograms, rather than grams). That's why Hinde and Cook are investigating other ways of cooking up novel elements. 'We've discovered a whole new region of fission and nuclei that behave in an unexpected way,' Hinde says. 'That's something we've been able to do with this accelerator, perhaps something we wouldn't have been able to do anywhere else in the world.' But why pursue new elements at all, if they flash into existence for less time than it takes to blink? Curiosity and new cancer treatments Part of the hunt for new elements is motivated by good old-fashioned competition. 'A lot of it, to be frank, is nationalism and national pride,' says chief executive of the facility, Dr Tom McGoram. 'For China and the United States, it's that strategic arm wrestling and posturing. Not so much here. We do it because we're fascinated by the physics of it.' Loading There are no practical uses for the new elements. 'But there's no more stringent test of our ability to understand complex quantum systems than superheated nuclei,' says McGoram. 'And really, that's the same story that's always led us to applications – let's think of the hardest thing we can think of to do and have a crack at it.' McGoram nominates lutetium-177 as an example of this; fundamental nuclear physicists examining the nuclei of this rare earth element discovered they could attach it to a molecule that concentrates in the prostate. That's morphed into a groundbreaking, targeted new treatment for metastatic prostate cancer that significantly boosts survival rates. They didn't set out to create a new drug; the physicists just wanted to better understand the underlying science of atoms. 'It's research like that into the quantum structure of radio nuclei that leads to new therapies for treating cancer,' McGoram says. 'It's pretty cool.' The key AUKUS warning This is also one of the few places in the world where science students are tasked with controlling an entire particle accelerator. It's as practical as an apprenticeship, McGoram says. Many students, though, are hired by labs in the US or elsewhere overseas. That's something Australia needs to quickly reverse. We'll need nuclear engineers and physicists to safely house and run the AUKUS submarines slated to arrive in the late 2030s; at least 200 nuclear experts and 4300 people trained in nuclear engineering, according to one analysis. But there aren't enough tenured nuclear physicists to provide the high-level training needed to fully embrace domestic nuclear opportunities in defence, space, medicine and agriculture. There are so few in Australia I've just met half of them in the facility's lobby. 'We're down to single-digit tenured nuclear scientists in Australia. By the OECD average we should have 40 or 50,' McGoram says. The Australian Academy of Science calls it a nuclear skills crisis. The lack of senior academic talent is partly a consequence of cuts to nuclear science in the 1980s, the scientists tell me. That serves as a warning of how future prosperity suffers from underfunded science; knock-on effects echo through the decades. As Rick Spinrad, former head of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, warned this week about the Trump administration's massive funding freezes to research: 'This is not like tariffs. You can't just turn a science switch off and then turn it back on again.'
The Age
29-04-2025
- Science
- The Age
How this Australian particle accelerator highlights a crisis facing AUKUS
In another room, physicists shoot nitrogen atoms into diamonds, creating the 'qubit' building blocks of future quantum computers. Global scientists have the accelerator booked out for months in advance. And the accelerator plays a crucial role in a more esoteric quest: the hunt for new elements. How to make a new element The accelerator room's a riot of coloured wires, chrome pipes, Ferrari red particle-boosting magnets and metal chambers where the sped-up ions smash into their target. Hinde built much of the custom equipment in this room himself. He's one of the scientists who have gathered at the brutalist beacon of the accelerator's building to celebrate a milestone recognition award from the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It's the third Australian facility to receive the honour, alongside the famous Parkes Dish and the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station. Hinde was part of the international team that confirmed the addition of a new element to the periodic table: element 117, or tennessine. It was made by smashing together calcium-48 and berkelium-249. The intense process produced four atoms of tennessine which fell apart in milliseconds. Element 118, oganesson, has also been recognised after five atoms were painstakingly produced across multiple experiments. 'But how do you make element 119 and 120? Turns out we, the scientific community, don't actually know,' Hinde says. The method of smashing calcium-48 with a heavy element has reached its practical limit because, to create element 119, you'd need einsteinium; an element discovered in the debris of a hydrogen bomb test that's quick to decay and can only be manufactured in tiny quantities (nanograms, rather than grams). That's why Hinde and Cook are investigating other ways of cooking up novel elements. 'We've discovered a whole new region of fission and nuclei that behave in an unexpected way,' Hinde says. 'That's something we've been able to do with this accelerator, perhaps something we wouldn't have been able to do anywhere else in the world.' But why pursue new elements at all, if they flash into existence for less time than it takes to blink? Curiosity and new cancer treatments Part of the hunt for new elements is motivated by good old-fashioned competition. 'A lot of it, to be frank, is nationalism and national pride,' says chief executive of the facility, Dr Tom McGoram. 'For China and the United States, it's that strategic arm wrestling and posturing. Not so much here. We do it because we're fascinated by the physics of it.' Loading There are no practical uses for the new elements. 'But there's no more stringent test of our ability to understand complex quantum systems than superheated nuclei,' says McGoram. 'And really, that's the same story that's always led us to applications – let's think of the hardest thing we can think of to do and have a crack at it.' McGoram nominates lutetium-177 as an example of this; fundamental nuclear physicists examining the nuclei of this rare earth element discovered they could attach it to a molecule that concentrates in the prostate. That's morphed into a groundbreaking, targeted new treatment for metastatic prostate cancer that significantly boosts survival rates. They didn't set out to create a new drug; the physicists just wanted to better understand the underlying science of atoms. 'It's research like that into the quantum structure of radio nuclei that leads to new therapies for treating cancer,' McGoram says. 'It's pretty cool.' The key AUKUS warning This is also one of the few places in the world where science students are tasked with controlling an entire particle accelerator. It's as practical as an apprenticeship, McGoram says. Many students, though, are hired by labs in the US or elsewhere overseas. That's something Australia needs to quickly reverse. We'll need nuclear engineers and physicists to safely house and run the AUKUS submarines slated to arrive in the late 2030s; at least 200 nuclear experts and 4300 people trained in nuclear engineering, according to one analysis. But there aren't enough tenured nuclear physicists to provide the high-level training needed to fully embrace domestic nuclear opportunities in defence, space, medicine and agriculture. There are so few in Australia I've just met half of them in the facility's lobby. 'We're down to single-digit tenured nuclear scientists in Australia. By the OECD average we should have 40 or 50,' McGoram says. The Australian Academy of Science calls it a nuclear skills crisis. The lack of senior academic talent is partly a consequence of cuts to nuclear science in the 1980s, the scientists tell me. That serves as a warning of how future prosperity suffers from underfunded science; knock-on effects echo through the decades. As Rick Spinrad, former head of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, warned this week about the Trump administration's massive funding freezes to research: 'This is not like tariffs. You can't just turn a science switch off and then turn it back on again.'
Associated Press
02-04-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Mrunal Gangrade Wins a 2025 Global Recognition Award for Excellence in Financial Technology Leadership
Mrunal Gangrade received a 2025 Global Recognition Award for her exceptional financial technology leadership. Her contributions span security protocol development, cross-institutional technical innovations, effective mentorship frameworks for women in technology and resilient career advancement despite significant industry challenges. New York, NY, United States, April 2, 2025 -- A vice president of a leading global financial institution, Mrunal Gangrade, has been honored with a 2025 Global Recognition Award for her contributions to software development within banking and finance. The recognition acknowledges her two decades of leadership in financial technology systems, which have significantly improved security protocols for millions of customers. Her mastery of global risk controls, cybersecurity frameworks and Know-Your-Customer protocols has established her influence in financial technology while maintaining ethical standards throughout her career. Gangrade's progression to Vice President reflects her technical expertise in navigating critical banking systems that balance innovation with regulatory compliance. The award committee cited her ability to develop secure solutions that address increasingly sophisticated challenges faced by global financial institutions without compromising operational efficiency. Recent industry analyses indicate that financial institutions implementing security frameworks similar to Gangrade's have reported reduced vulnerability incidents in 2025, demonstrating measurable impact beyond theoretical advancements. Technical Service and Community Impact The evaluation committee awarded Gangrade a perfect score in community impact based on the adoption of her technical innovations across multiple banking institutions. Her contributions to developer forums and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) include practical insights on emerging technologies and security protocols that address evolving threats without requiring proprietary systems or excessive implementation costs. The sustainability of her methodologies continues to benefit the industry long after implementation. This creates standards that improve protection across institutions that would otherwise maintain isolated security approaches. Reviewers noted that her approach to solving technical problems emphasizes immediate solutions and long-term viability within complex regulatory environments. Her technical assessments incorporate considerations for future adaptability while maintaining strict compliance with current financial regulations that vary across global markets. Financial security experts have cited her frameworks as models that successfully navigate the tension between innovation and protection without sacrificing either objective. This is a balance particularly valuable as digital banking continues to expand rapidly. Mentorship and Diversity Advancement Gangrade earned exceptional marks for mentorship, particularly for creating systematic pathways for women entering financial technology, where they comprise only 27% of the workforce. Her mentorship model combines technical training with strategic career guidance that addresses coding proficiency and organizational navigation within competitive environments. The structured approach begins with fundamental skills development and extends to professional network building that supports long-term career sustainability rather than short-term placement achievements. Other leaders have adopted her development of replicable mentorship frameworks. This creates what evaluators termed a 'multiplicative impact' throughout the industry. Gangrade's mentees consistently demonstrate above-average advancement rates within their organizations compared to non-mentored counterparts with similar technical qualifications and experience levels. The selection committee determined her approach addresses skill development and retention challenges that have historically limited diversity within specialized technical roles in financial institutions. Professional Resilience and Recognition The selection committee highlighted Gangrade's maintenance of her professional trajectory despite significant challenges, including continuing her career during childbirth while working on an H1B visa. Her journey from Mumbai University computer engineering graduate to Vice President illustrates the effective integration of technical expertise with leadership that improves technology ecosystems through measured, systematic approaches. The committee specifically noted her ability to navigate career advancement in an industry often resistant to interrupted career paths, particularly for professionals working under visa requirements that add complexity to employment transitions. Alex Sterling from the Global Recognition Awards observes, 'Gangrade exemplifies the balance between innovation and ethics essential for effective technology leadership in financial systems. Her contributions to financial technology security demonstrate how technical expertise combined with inclusive leadership creates substantial improvements throughout interconnected banking systems.' The award recognizes her sustained excellence in creating security frameworks adopted across multiple institutions rather than isolated achievements limited to a single organization or application. 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