Question Is it worth to upgrade to Wifi 6E to make the PC more secure?

[modeonoff]

Hi, I have a Gigabyte Z390 Xtreme motherboard which has built-in "802.11a/b/g/n/ac, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band". Recently my ISP upgraded the modem-router to fibre 1.5Gbps. Consequently, I upgraded Windows from 10 to 11 and added an ASUS WiFi 6E PCI-E Adapter. However, I don't feel noticeable improvement in speed. I am considering whether to keep the card as it supports WPA3 (perhaps more secure?) or return it to save a PCI-E slot in case I need it for something else in the future. Is it worth to keep the card as it might make the system more secure due to WPA-3?

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[cruisetung]

WPA3 is not needed. Use online/offline strong password generators to create a strong password.

You will be safe with a long (>16 chars) and complex password.

Hackers will not waste their time trying to hack a home user's wifi.

 

[bill001g]

Does the router support wifi6e also. You might have to force it to use the 6ghz band. It should in theory be faster. Problem is 6ghz is absorb more than 5ghz and 2.4g so it might not be as fast if you are not close to the router.
Mostly "fast" wifi is a joke. Wifi is mostly used on portable devices. Portable devices have very little storage space. The only reason you need higher bandwidth wifi, and even the intenret itself, is if you do large downloads all the time. Pretty much this is something a desktop machine will do say downloading games or maybe large video render files. A desktop machine many times can just use a ethernet cable. So the number of users that can actually use fast wifi is not huge. People think more bandwidth will make things run faster or better. Netflix for example only uses 30mbps and will not use more even if it is available. They get hung up on the idea "bigger number must be better"

You might as well keep the card. There is almost no differnce in the price between the wifi6e and older cards. It is backward compatible and will run the same speed as a older card that does not support wifi6e.

Will be interesting to see if WPA3 is really used by very many people. In general WPA2 is good enough for a home user. The biggest reason that a lot of home users will not move to WPA3 is because they are already using a feature called WPS that is even more insecure. WPS no longer functions under WPA3. WPS is what lets those "smart?" lights function. All the IOT devices that have no way to manually key in a userid and password use WPS to get the keys. WPS has been cracked almost since it was launched and even a cell phone has enough cpu power to hack it. Problem is huge numbers of people just buy magic boxes and have no idea how bad the security is.

 

[modeonoff]

Yes, the router supports wifi6e and yes I think the location of the computer with respect to the new router causes the lower than advertised speeds. If I want higher speeds, I would need to spend money to buy a wifi6e mesh/extender. The thing is I removed the card and I don't experience any slowness using the wifi module on the motherboard. This makes me think if it is better to return the card to save some money.