Question regarding WiFi 5 and 6

Do you have any wifi6 compatible devices? If so, do you do anything that could use more than gigabit speeds? Does your ISP provide higher than gigabit speed? Do you think you would ever need to stream more than a couple dozen simultaneous 4K video streams?

What I'm getting at is wifi6 likely won't be all that relevant until you are ready to buy the next round of devices in 5-10 years.


So to answer your question, if you have any wifi6 devices and if you feel the need to connect at those speeds, you will have to leave the wifi active on your modem/router combo. Usually when you get something like the Nest mesh wifi, you would disable the wifi on your modem. But even if you leave it enabled, if your wifi6 devices go out of range or get too weak a signal from the modem, you should set them up to fall back and connect to the Nest wifi. But given that you're considering a mesh system, I'm guessing coverage isn't all that great currently.