Wi-Fi 6 looks promising for people with really fast Internet connections that are not capped. For capped internet connections it's almost irrelevant. In my experience, it just reaches the cap quicker and ends up in charges or having to carefully manage things to not reach the cap before the end of the month. I downgraded my connection from 350mbps to 200mbps as I was breaching the 1tb cap too quickly (Comcast). I can't imagine having a 1gbps connection with a 1tb cap. It might last a week or two before getting hit with massive overages. It's been nice not having this problem the last few months, but I don't expect to upgrade my router anytime soon. There's simply no service here that would warrant it as Comcast has a monopoly.
For a large majority of consumers the amount of data they use per month is only slightly correlated with their internet speed.
They have a certain amount of data they want to use in a month. If their speed goes up or down the amount of data they want to use stays about the same--the speed just determines how long they have to wait for downloads.
You might look into Comcast's XFi Advantage plan, which includes unlimited data. The cost varies by location but I think it is around $15/month in most. You also have to be renting their modem, so add another $10-14/month. You can add unlimited data to any plan, but that's $50/month. Doing it via XFi Advantage is about half of that.
>For a large majority of consumers the amount of data they use per month is only slightly correlated with their internet speed.
This will change once the cable boxes go out and all media comes through the internet pipe. I don't know anyone in my network (mid 30s and below) who subscribes to television service. Even the old people in my family have been setup with iPads or Apple TVs or whatnot so they can watch everything on demand.
While WiFi 6 is a little faster than older WiFi standards for individual connections, it is really meant to allow for better performance when there are a lot of clients all using the network at once. So for a home network, you might not notice much of a benefit, but in universities, hotels, etc., you might see a bigger improvement.
