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Question about NETGEAR RAX120, need an expert for this question.
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. I...
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.
So, this means if I run it on 80Mhz bandwidth using all of 8 antennae I should get more signal strength than router with 4 streams using 160Mhz, right?
If Beamforming still working if I use 8 streams mode?