1. If I have 2 of NETGEAR RAX120, one for the AP mode and another one for the bridge mode on the 5Ghz band. Can it benefit from 8 streams and Beamforming from 8 of its antennas on both routers?2. If it has 8 streams on a single 5Ghz band, why it can't reach the speed of 9.6Gbps?

HKSoft wrote:1. If I have 2 of NETGEAR RAX120, one for the AP mode and another one for the bridge mode on the 5Ghz band. Can it benefit from 8 streams and Beamforming from 8 of its antennas on both routers?2. If it has 8 streams on a single 5Ghz band, why it can't reach the speed of 9.6Gbps? 8 streams: 4x-2.4ghz streams (1.2gbps) and 4x 5ghz streams (4.8gbps). Equals 6gbps. AX6000 Not sure what you mean by 2x rax120s with one for ap mode and one for bridge mode. Is one of them running in router mode or are you using a different device for that. Not sure why you want to use bridge mode. you'd be much better off hardwired together.

Sorry to make you confused but NETGEAR RAX120 has 12 streams in total, 4 on 2.4Ghz and 8 on a single 5Ghz band.All questions I asked here focus on the 8 streams on the single 5Ghz band. Wire not an option for me, if I can wire my network I won't ask, obviously.

sorry, it is 5ghz 8x8 but its still 4800mbps (4.8gbps)

That the question right? Why it had 8 streams but can't get 9.6Gbps and what the benefit from it? Why not using 8 streams for tri-band.

Reason why comes down to they way it implements 160hz channels. 160hz wide channels can run 1.2ghz. But they RAX can only run 160hz wide channels in a 4x4 arrangement. when its running in 8x8 mode its using 80hz wide channels. (600mbps speed x8=4800mbps)When you run it in 160 hz, it has to run in a 80hz+80hz setup. It doesn't have the option of a single antenna running 160hz like the RAX200. so regardless of running it in 80hz or 160hz, you still max out at the 4800 mbps.

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plemans
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Mar 26, 2020
HKSoft wrote:
1. If I have 2 of NETGEAR RAX120, one for the AP mode and another one for the bridge mode on the 5Ghz band. Can it benefit from 8 streams and Beamforming from 8 of its antennas on both routers?
2. If it has 8 streams on a single 5Ghz band, why it can't reach the speed of 9.6Gbps?

8 streams: 4x-2.4ghz streams (1.2gbps) and 4x 5ghz streams (4.8gbps). Equals 6gbps. AX6000

Not sure what you mean by 2x rax120s with one for ap mode and one for bridge mode. Is one of them running in router mode or are you using a different device for that.
Not sure why you want to use bridge mode. you'd be much better off hardwired together.
- HKSoft
  Aspirant
  Mar 26, 2020
  Sorry to make you confused but NETGEAR RAX120 has 12 streams in total, 4 on 2.4Ghz and 8 on a single 5Ghz band.
  All questions I asked here focus on the 8 streams on the single 5Ghz band.
  
  Wire not an option for me, if I can wire my network I won't ask, obviously.
  - plemans
    Guru
    Mar 26, 2020
    sorry, it is 5ghz 8x8 but its still 4800mbps (4.8gbps)

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