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duckware
Feb 03, 2019Prodigy
Netgear hyping STREAMS in Wi-Fi 6 routers is nonsense
Wow, 12 streams in the RAX120. Complete nonsense and meaningless (and computed wrong; there are 8 antennas).
Kudos to the first person that explains to the community (the correct answer) why s...
schumaku
Feb 04, 2019Guru - Experienced User
FWIW 12 stream are implemented 4x 2.4GHz and 8x 5GHz
duckware
Feb 04, 2019Prodigy
Yes. But why does that not matter for 802.11ax for the situation described? That is the point. Why is Netgear hyping something that really does not matter. 802.11ax is a game changer for the reason why.
A clue: Even a 2x2 802.11ax AP would be just as capable.