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What are the transmit powers from the RBRE960 and RBSE960?
Hi. I’m in the UK, and have the Orbi RBRE960 and RBSE960 system at home. I’m trying to determine what power the RBRE960 and RBSE960 transmit at within each of the frequency bands. Do these APs dynami...
Hi, Thanks for that, That seems rather useful. I've got a reasonably good handle on UK's regulations as it's part of my job to understand this (one of my tasks is to rollout Wi-Fi infrastructure for thousands of people), and I've had recent meetings with the UK regulator (Ofcom). Ofcom regulations for these Wi-Fi frequencies is found online in document IR2030, just look for the sections with the relevant frequency ranges.
I had seen the "TPC" or "Transmit Power Control" setting in the AP GUI but that was one of those unclear items as, in the UK and EU, Transmit Power Control is a term defined in the regulations and standards as the method to use for dynamic power control. Looking at the GUI TPC options I suspected that Netgear's use of TPC was for setting a fixed power output.
If, as you say, the GUI TPC when set to 100% results in the maximum regulated output for my region, then that makes my evaluation rather easy. Hopefully someone from Netgear can provide an official confirmation.
Thanks one again for your help.
silentnomad wrote:
Hopefully someone from Netgear can provide an official confirmation.
Oh, dear. In nearly eight years, I have never seen anyone from Netgear engineering or support participate in the Community Forum. The only Netgear employees we see are specifically tasked with maintaining the forum itself.
It is much more likely that someone at Ofcom would be in contact with Netgear in terms of Netgear's compliance with regulations. Surely Netgear is required to submit the same general sort of documentation they do to the FCC?
I just need some way to check that the Netgear GUI "TPC" setting of 100% will, in fact, be setting the transmit power to max. The help link on the settings page doesn't even mention TPC. I've tried googling for "Netgear TPC" and other variations but no luck so far. I'll keep at it.
I am pretty confident that 100% means, "this is the most power it can be set to." Whether that matches the regulatory limit is a valid question. Page 10 of that 860 test report provided numbers for 2.4G and two 5G WiFi bands.
Another way to approach this might be to ask, "How does this Netgear 960 product compare to other WiFi systems being sold in the UK?" My Samsung Galaxy tablet, for example, reports signal level for every WiFi access point it detects, whether connected or not. Stand the same distance from a bunch of WiFi systems and record the signal level. (Maybe at a Best Buy store?) If the Netgear 960 measures the same as other routers, then................