
The Real Difference Between 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6
If you have bought a phone, router, laptop, or tablet in the past few years, you have probably encountered labels such as 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6.


If you have bought a phone, router, laptop, or tablet in the past few years, you have probably encountered labels such as 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6.

Every day, enormous amounts of personal information travel between phones, computers, websites, banks, messaging apps, cloud services, and businesses.

Pressing the power button on a computer feels almost instantaneous. The screen lights up, a logo appears, perhaps a loading animation spins for a few seconds, and eventually you arrive at a login screen or desktop. From the user’s perspective, very little seems to happen.