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2x2 vs 1x1 MU-MIMO on RAX 120 vs RAX 80
Hi everyone, I notice that the RAX80 supports "streaming on up to four 1x1 devices at the same time" while the RAX120 supports "four 2x2 devices". 1. Is someone able to help me to understand...
Ah okay noted, thanks. But since RAX80 supports four streams of 1x1 devices, what about my 2x2 devices? Will RAX80 send 2 streams to my 2x2 devices? If so, how many 2x2 devices can it concurrently support?
If it can support 4x concurrent 1x1 devices then it should be able to support 2x 2x2 solutions.
You can have more devices running at the same time because they're usually rarely transmitting at the same time.
- Right, makes sense, thanks! One more question - how do the streams work when older (non WiFi 6) devices are on the network?
both the access point and the client need to support mu-mimo
https://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless-infrastructure/mu-mimo-reality-check
Yes and I tested with the RAX 120 and you can not use the 8x8 if you don't have a client that does 8x8 sounding.
I used two 4x4 clients ACwave2 with MU-MIMO enabled. And that is not using the 8x8 mimo. Only 4x4.
Also 3x 2x2 ac wave 2 with MU-Mimo enabled does not have any speed benefits from the 8x8 in throughput in my test.
So you buy into the future with this router I guess.