New Firmware -- AT&T USA

Hi Everyone, There is in fact a new firmware for AT&T rolling out now. I'm trying to update, but first download attempt failed. I did two factory resets (one soft through the web admin, and the...

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JSchnee21

Virtuoso

Mar 22, 2018

Ok,

Got my work laptop fired up with inSSIDer. From the negotiated PHY rates, it appears the MR1100 is in fact MIMO 2x2.

With 5.8GHz @ 40Mhz I get a max PHY rate of 360Mbit (aka ~216Mbit usable). At 5.8GHz @ 80MHz I get a max PHY rate of 866.7 Mbit (~520Mbit usable)

Signal (dBm) seemed to drop only ~3-5dBm with 80Mhz enabled. But this was by no means a scientific test. In general signal strength and useful range general decreases with wider channels. Which is why I want to use a 20MHz bandwith for 5.8GHz.

More info here

http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/wp/WP_80211acInDepth.pdf

Not sure if the MR1100 does band steering or not. I don't see any settings. I typically run my 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz networks with separate SSID's.

-Jonathan

UK-based

Luminary

Mar 30, 2018

JSchnee21: I just like to thank you for your detailed and informative posts on this and other topics. You're clearly spending a lot of time doing research into the M1 and are very kindly sharing your findings with us. Keep up the good work - it's much appreciated :smileywink:.

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