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Does AX8 fully support the AX specification?
This router may not support all the mandatory features, ratified in Draft 3.0 of IEEE 802.11AX specification. We now know that the AX spec has been finalised, but this router is out in the market a...
I wonder if the chips are designed in such a way that the manufacturers know that all it takes is a firmware update.
It seems that Netgear and the likes know that they could go ahead and release these routers without an issue as the rest of AX hardware specification is known and unlikely to change.
In terms of other aspects of the design, I hope that they are able to accommodate any last minute changes via firmawre upgrade.
It seems odd to have AX routers before AX has been finalised
Gil80 wrote:It seems odd to have AX routers before AX has been finalised
Happened with any earlier 802.11 wireless development before, too - pre-standard hardware is flooded by the mainstream manufacturers - long before the final standard validation. There is zero guarantee and no formal promise that all final standard features can be be implemented by firmware updates.