Question Wi-Fi 6 connected to Wi-Fi 2.4 vs. Wi-Fi 2.4 connected to Wi-Fi 2.4

[AsteriskRin]

I have 2 devices. The first one has Wi-Fi 2.4 and the second one has Wi-Fi 6. My home has a router that uses Wi-Fi 2.4. If I connect both of my devices to the home router (assuming both transfer data through internet to the same server, e.g, same youtube video), which one would be faster? My hipotesis is both run more likely at the same throughput.

 

[jojesa]

Just as you said, both device might have the same speed.
The new device could have a bit of an advantage, because of the newer hardware.
Since your router only has 2.4GHz wavelength, the Wi-Fi 6 device won't be able to take advantages of the faster Wi-Fi 6 band.
It will default to the 2.4GHz band.

 

[bill001g]

This question gets messy fast.

You are confusing the frequencies and the names of the wifi. Maybe better to call it 802.11ax rather than wifi6.

So there are in general 2 radio bands 2.4 and 5ghz and a new one that runs on 6ghz. Note wifi6 does not use the 6ghz radio band that is wifi6'e'
This has nothing directly to do with the type of data encoding it is running on those radio channels.

Depending on how old your router is it can be running say 802.11n, 802.11ac or maybe 802.11ax. These would be wifi4,wifi5,wifi6 but best to use the more technical names.

What will happen is if your router only supports 802.11ac and your pc supports 802.11ax. Since 802.11ax is backward compatible it will drop to 802.11n. So in this case they are exactly the same.

Now lets say you have a 802.11ax router and 2 devices. 1 is 802.11ac and the other device is 802.11ax. The router will use 802.11ac to talk to the 802.11ac device but will use 802.11ax to talk to the 802.11ax device. In this case the device that is using (wifi6) 802.11ax will run slightly faster because the data encoding is more dense than the older 802.11ac.

I suspect from they way you ask your question the router is older and does not support the newer data protocols so they will be the same.