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Quad-band Router
Netgear should make a quadband router. That has 1 2.4ghz, 2 5ghz, and 1 60ghz bands. The router has 8x8 mu-mimo upload and download. It uses wireless ad/ax and other previous wireless standards. Wire...
Netgear is a little bit burned by the early availability of the 60 GHz 802.11ad in the R9000 (and the XR700) - a standard ratified but never really used for real-world WiFi networking usage beyond of about two interface types, available in selected high end notebooks back then - for some months.
When I read the odd information ref 802.11ay on "extended transmission distance of 300–500 meters" - yeah, with the right antenna system, in free air.
Based on the IEEE work group participation, I fear this will go towards functionality like "wireless" HDMI, VR displays, ... the same dead end 802.11ad went.
Last, you don't want to have a 4 GHz system up 24*7 ... even today's embedded systems in the operate multiple dual-core ARM system clocked around 2 GHz each core.
Thanks so much for your option