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R9000 X10 - 160MHz doesn't work. Also, what SFP part required for 10G port?
I bought the AP in the US, and it seems like 160MHz doesn't work / isn't available. What gives? It looks like there are not enough channels allowed - which is the probably reason for it not working....
Here's the conclusion to my original posting (to summarize everything).
For 160MHz support - indeed there is no DFS channel support (North America) in current FW (1.0.1.36). Therefore, contiguous 160MHz bandwidth is not currently possible. 80+80 MHz support is possbile and seems to work fine. (lower channels 36,40,44,48 bonded with upper channels 149,153,157,161). However, I'm not sure what Wi-Fi clients out there have any support for 80+80.
Regarding 10G port/connectivity - I have been able to connect the R9000's 10G port (via fiber cable with Cisco SFP-10G-SR SFP+ transceivers) to a Netgear ProSafe M4200 switch. That connection is 10Gbps so that's awesome :). From there, you can connect other multi-gig devices (desktops, servers, etc) via either:
- the remaining 10G fiber/SFP port on the switch
- the 5Gbps / 2.5 Gbps LAN ports on the switchAnd voila, that gives you a multi-gig (up to 5Gbps in this setup) Wi-Fi network that's ready for future technologies - 160MHz, MU-MIMO, 11ax (with a different AP).
For now, this is a very expensive setup, without much gain in Wi-Fi speeds. When 160MHz support matures, we can expect a maximum throughput (goodput) of about 1300 Mbps in real life.
Thanks for some good info!
Regarding SFP+ : based on your search is there an SFP+ for ethernet cables? I looked up most of these and they are fiber/optic. (I have a 10G LAN/ethernet network card on my desktop).
For 160MHz, I'm using it in the US. It almost seems like this AP has not been certified to use more than channels 36,40,44,48 in the US. (Those are the only available ones in the list). For 160MHz, we would need 36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64.
WiFi-Geek wrote:Thanks for some good info!
Regarding SFP+ : based on your search is there an SFP+ for ethernet cables? I looked up most of these and they are fiber/optic. (I have a 10G LAN/ethernet network card on my desktop).
For 160MHz, I'm using it in the US. It almost seems like this AP has not been certified to use more than channels 36,40,44,48 in the US. (Those are the only available ones in the list). For 160MHz, we would need 36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64.
It will have to support the SFP+ standard to work.