{"id":83290,"date":"2018-10-04T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/wi-fi-6-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:05:42","slug":"wi-fi-6-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/wi-fi-6-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi 6 Is Coming: Here\u2019s Why You Should Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wi-fi-6-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get ready for the next generation of wifi technology: Wi-fi 6 (for so it is named) is going to be appearing on devices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-fi.org\/discover-wi-fi\/wi-fi-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from next year<\/a>. But will you have to throw out your old router and get a new one? And is this going to make your Netflix run faster? Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the new standard.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>A brief history of wifi<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Those of you of a certain age will remember when home internet access was very much wired\u2014only one computer could get online, a single MP3 took half an hour to download, and you couldn\u2019t use the landline phone at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wi-fi-6-is-coming-and-heres-why-you-should-care-1829516258\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wi-fi-6-is-coming-and-heres-why-you-should-care-1829516258<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for the next generation of wifi technology: Wi-fi 6 (for so it is named) is going to be appearing on devices from next year. But will you have to throw out your old router and get a new one? And is this going to make your Netflix run faster? Here\u2019s everything you need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83432,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83290\/revisions\/83432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}