Well, the AF-5/5U does have a couple of good points over the 5X - because it can do full duplex, it can do quite a bit more throughput, you can use an entire 50mhz channel for one direction (I think something like 640Mbps, if you can get 10x to work), where the AF-5x can only do 75% of that at best (of course if you need bigger antennas to be able to maintain decent modulations, the speed advantage goes away pretty quickly), it also has the nice feature of being able to use not only different channels for up and down (which the 5x can also do), but also different channel sizes (which the 5x can't do). In most cases, this stuff isn't worth the trade-offs and the AF-5x is almost always going to be the better choice (in my opinion), but there are some cases where the peanut shaped monstrosities are a good fit.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > Original AF5 is twice the cost of 5X but it does full duplex. To me its > more important to have all the 5GHZ band available rather than have full > duplex in only the upper part of the band. > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Okay, but it still doesn't have any advantage over a normal AF5 in the >> US, does it? it looks to me like it would just lose you 5.47-5.7ghz, >> without gaining anything (in the US). >> > >
