P Nelson wrote: > Interesting. With with an ASUS RX-AT55 and PX-AT56, I had different > results. Turning on Wifi6 in the 2.4 GHz band would cause my radios to > drop very quickly. Turing Wifi6 off helped. I have not done a more > recent test with newer ASUS firmware as I have to move all my equipment > to a location that does not exhibit interference problems. In my case, > I suspect it is a neighbor using WiFi6 which causes random interference > with the Radios. > > You can read my experience here: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114996-ASUS-RT-AX55-Mesh-Router%92s-Compatibility-with-SB-Radios&highlight=ASUS > > Your experience is good news if newer chipsets/firmware is not causing > problem with older equipment. > > Paul
Distance of neighboring wireless networks is likely a factor in our environment. We have a large property (hence the need for a wireless mesh), and it is unlikely that neighboring 5 and 6 Ghz wireless networks (not including cellular protocols, of course) are intruding too deeply. I can imagine in a congested townhouse or condominium setting, that would not be the case. I routinely conduct network surveys to see who is about us, and there are always at least 3-5 other wireless networks in range, but I suspect they are all legacy 2.4 Ghz of one form or another. But that's the helpful paradox of the newer wireless standards. As the standards improve, the frequencies increase, from 5 Ghz, and now slowly into 6 Ghz ranges, and the transmission range naturally declines with most consumer equipment (due to the amplifier constraints). So I hope all our neighboring properties migrate to 6 Ghz Wi-Fi 6E and eventually Wi-Fi 7, as quickly as possible. And I suspect that the chip designers are increasingly not further advancing the 2.4 Ghz band (other than as a fallback limp home mode in auto band switching environments), as there is insufficient bandwidth available there to support the latest and coming standards. As long as they don't remove it from the SoC altogether, the Radio and other 2.4 Ghz legacy clients will still have a home. I was experiencing the dropouts that many here were reporting when allowing the Radio to roam our mesh network. That was likely because of dissimilar chipset and AP standards among the nodes complicating the handoffs. The nodes here are tri-band Asus XT8 models. Binding it to the core router prevented those handoffs, and the drops. Of note is that our core routers have been dual band only (as we run Ethernet backhauls). So the RF architecture that the Radio faces is also less complicated than other clients. Whatever the reasons, the bottom line is that the Radio works in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sgmlaw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111663 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
