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Has or will the RAX200 get the final WIFI 6 specs
Hi.
I have been using the Netgear routers for some time now and looking into the getting the RAX200. I am aware that the final WIFI 6 specs has been finalized just recently.
Is or will the RAX200 adhere to ALL the WIFI 6 specs? I read that the older RAX120 already doesn't support some features, and would hate to pay that much for a router, only to find out later on that it doesnt support all the final WIFI 6 features.
Any thoughts on this?
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The RAX120 qualitatively uses a superior chipset (Qualcomm), in SmallNetbuilder’s testing the RAX120 did the best in 5Ghz performance testing while the Broadcom chipset based router’s like the chipset in the RAX80/200 saw a weird dip in performance plots.
The RAX200 is basically a RAX80 with an extra 5Ghz band and 2.5 Gb with port but the main Broadcom WiFi chipset and CPU are the same.
Qualcomm usually has a better track record of implementation of new features in a properly working manner. Broadcom still has issues with things like MU-MIMO performance.- But yeah none of the current routers support all AX features..... Even if chipset vendors promise support later on via an update for current devices I’d be weary. As mentioned previously at least with Broadcom newly added features aren’t necessarily activated in a properly functioning manner, more like just to check boxes. Qualcomm had declared that the QCA8074/8 chipset in the RAX120 supports all the draft AX features but things like uplink MU are missing, though downlink MU is enabled.
- If you want a full featured AX router, I’d hold off right now.
- That still doesnt the answer of wifi 6 certification
- So basically there is a chance things wont be supported. Better wait for v2
