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Upgrade to WiFi6e standard
Does anyone know if the RAX120 will be able to be updated to the new WiFi6e standard?
Eric_XOX wrote:
Did you know that RAX120 even failed the Wifi 6 certification?
Source, references, links?
RAX80 and RAX120 were released long before the WiFi 6 certification requirements were fixed. Many device makers don't submit their devices for the certification. Also, many relatively early released chipsets might not have the last bells and whistles to pass. Not uncommon with pre-standard devices.
Eric_XOX wrote:
http://certifications.prod.wi-fi.org/pdf/certificate/public/download?cid=WFA79402WFA79402 was issued (Date of Last Certification November 20, 2018) almost one year before the Wi-Fi 6 certification program became available.
"Austin, Texas, - September 16, 2019 – The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ certification program from Wi-Fi Alliance® is now available and delivers the best user experience with devices based on IEEE 802.11ax. .."
Source: Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ delivers new Wi-Fi® era
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/RAX120-is-dead-does-NOT-fully-support-802-11ax/td-p/1699992
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/RAX120-UL-OFDMA/m-p/1958111
I understand what you mean. As mentioned in the above two articles, I think RAX120 can’t even provide the complete functions of wifi 6. Some people are asking if it can be upgraded to 6E. I think it’s ridiculous.Why always being negative?
Todays WiFi radio modules or chipsets are widely software defined. Means there is microcode/embedded firmware which is uploaded from the host on Windows for example these binaries as part of the driver.
What was correct at the time of duckware (hello my friend - highly appreciate your work on Duckware - Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E (802.11 n/ac/ax) - a very useful repository for explaining Wi-Fi!) posting - and correctly documented on the Product Datasheet back then - is most likely no longer an issue today on these Wi-Fi 6 router models.
The limitations are no longer mentioned on the current data sheets (current always via https://netgear.com/support -> e.g RAX80 -> Documentation -> Product Data Sheet), so we can safely assume that the capabilities are implemented now.
All this does not make it completely impossible that an extension to the 6e band might be feasible.