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This was my question this morning, with the following answer choices:

  • wifi6 is 802.11ac
  • wifi5 is 802.11ax
  • wifi5 and wifi6 both the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands (yes this is exactly how it was worded, looks like a word was missed)
  • wifi6 supports the 6ghz band

With the third option erroneously being marked as “correct”. Let’s look a bit deeper:

The first two options are obviously incorrect as we know they are swapped (wifi5 is 802.11ac and wifi6 is 802.11ax), so I immediately eliminated those options. Looking at the remaining two, I knew that neither were technically correct, so I resigned myself to finding the “least incorrect” option.

Now, if we look at the question the way it is worded, we are looking for a difference between the two standards, because of this we can immediately eliminate the third option as the correct answer as it is a similarity not a difference, but let’s even go further. It is also incorrect because 802.11ac (wifi5) does not use the 2.4ghz band; yes there are dual-band 802.11ac access points, but the 2.4ghz band is actually facilitated by using 802.11n.

Ironically, this is further supported by this sentence in the Spiceworks documentation that is linked in the explanation of the “correct” answer: “Wifi 5 uses only the 5GHz band, which offers less interference.”

So that leaves us with the “Wifi6 supports the 6ghz band” option. While this is technically incorrect also, Wifi6E does support the 6ghz band. So with Wifi6E being a sub-standard of Wifi6, this would be the “least incorrect” option.

I hate to be a PITA, but this is the second incorrect question I’ve received within a short time span and, if possible, I’d like to have my incorrect question count adjusted accordingly.

@suzanne-spiceworks

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Question correctness counts can’t be adjusted, unfortunately. We can pull all the questions that people complain about out of the list of questions, as needed, but people complain about them a lot more than they get added, so we are already running out of questions for the people who have been taking them every day for like three years now, so it would be vastly better to change the wording to make it work.

Let me know if you would like a tweak to the wording of the question or you think it should just be eliminated, and I can go try to find it later today when I have more time, but that is all I can do.

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I’d have liked to see an answer option of “1” in there…

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OK, in that case, I would say adding an option that states “Wifi 6 uses the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands; Wifi5 only uses the 5ghz band” and having that be the correct answer might be the best course of action.

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It looks like the 3rd option is missing not just a word but the entire phrase, “uses only the 5GHz band”.

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Or, if I may offer a shorter version of that, " Wifi 6 supports the 2.4ghz band, while Wifi 5 does not".

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Okay, I just edited the correct answer to reflect Luis C.'s rewording.

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You should have kept this on the q.t., to discourage submissions from me!

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Just wanted to add that I got this reworded question today and was able to choose the correct answer before I noticed this post so the changes worked.

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