A joint trial by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), CableLabs and Intel has found that making use of the 6 GHz band in a suburban home’s WiFi set-up has some compelling benefits. Not quite as compelling as we might envisage in a multi-dwelling unit (MDU), but the results still show that WiFi 6E lives up to its hype, even if the market for client devices is still yawning in bed. It seems curious that the WBA chose to conduct the trials inside a vast suburban home when one of the main attractions of the 6 GHz band is that the additional spectrum provides more flexibility for access points (APs) that are trying to work around each other in dense living…