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160Mhz for Mesh?
I know the Orbi 6 AX6000 doesn’t support 160mhz currently. Could it ever (is this a hardware limitation or firmware)? I ask because I have gigabit internet and see some routers do 160Mhz and get to...
Because the AX Orbis don't support 160mhz channels on the user available bands. The backhaul channel is 160mhz and it runs at 2400 mbps. There's not many AX clients that currently run on 160mhz channels (some laptops), nothing on iOS.
Doesn't support it on user available bands (as in, not implemented in firmware... or not supported by hardware)? I would think since the two 5GHz radios are identical in hardware, and since the one dedicated to backhaul is operating at 160MHz channel width, that the other radio dedicated to the actual client-end broadcast would similarly be capable of broadcasting at 160Mhz width.
Depends on the 5ghz radios that are used. It may be a firmware update or they can't do 160mhz because of hardware. I'd ask Netgear.
- Can somebody clarify the radio situation in the ax6000. I’m looking at this table and narrowing to spatial streams:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQXoEYLGWrR1aGyGaTXOOaDQSPLfeC4rv70KRFuRP6eZ5fL-Ku_YI6DgS6zZMNyIhQpQmnKQ1O7abij/pubhtml?gid=1367372895&single=true
From what I understand 80mhz AC is capped at 866mbps on a 2x2 radio (2 spatial streams). This is reflected by speed tests in my iPhone X which only has 2x2 AC mimo radios and so i get around 600mbps next to the router (due to overhead / transmission loss).
Is the AX6000 basically 12 radios — 4 streams (or 4x4) with three broadcasts, 1 at 2.4Ghz and 2 at 5Ghz? If this is correct, can somebody point to where on the table represents the max speeds for this router.
Also, can somebody explain what the heck “HT80 with mimo” means on the new 2020 iPad Pro — it’s clearly wifi6 but I can’t translate this into discerning what the max rate is on the table above (I.e how many spatial streams — if it’s 2 or 4).
