6 Ghz Mesh - Is it possible?

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Hi all,

I've been searching around, but are there any consumer available USB/PCI adapters that support 6ghz mesh? Has anyone done this?

I do see vendors selling systems like this claiming 6 ghz backbone and would love to stand something up at home similiar, using openwrt + whatever fits the bill, unless its just not readily available to consumers yet.

Are there any dev or eval boards people may know of?

In fact, i don't see much talk about using 6ghz here either beyond just as an AP.

Thank you.

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6GHz or wifi 6E or more meaningful wifi 7 can’t be solved with a firmware fix or a driver. It must be build with hardware first and sold with reasonable prize to the consumers.
And then something actually using 6GHz like smartphones and pads must be built and sold.

After that things usually start to move at 3rd parties like OpenWrt. But drivers for 5GHz is already hard to get working with current licenses, so the drivers for 6GHz will probably be even more guarded by the manufacturers.

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Companies are shooting themselves in the foot.

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Well, a stock company is obligated by law to earn money or go bankrupt, and these stock companies do make big money on their innovations and patents.

So please elaborate how do they “shoot themself in the foot”?

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try the banana pi4 and choose a card that supports 6ghz. I suggest a mediatek card (mt7925?) ... try this forum https://forum.banana-pi.org/c/banana-router/bpi-r4/63 and ask a similar

note that the banana pi4 should be considered at this stage a dev board although is supported on openwrt (believe on snapshot and soon 24.10 when it is released)

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That they could earn more by selling hardware with open source software.

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I bought two of these banana pi4 with be-14 (filogic 880) and we able to get 2.4/5ghz mesh, but not seemingly with 6ghz with 24.10, i could barely get ap/client working on there until i set to 20mhz and JP country code. Any ideas to see what we can do for 6ghz mesh (802.11s)?

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i don't use mesh myself so can't comment although 6ghz mesh feels to be a challenge all across ... i suggest you ask other people on the dedicated banana pi4 forums or otherwise just search on this forum