802.11ax Routers

Sadly none of them is avaible in my region, and both are over of my budget.
If waiting, should i really do? I mean until summer, ok. Until fall, ok, or more?
I mean i am totally in the dark to even guess, because i am not in the system to know: what are we waiting for right now, and how difficult to pass this stage.

There are no schedules.

I would like to understand, what is holding up the project... i am total noob for this.

In the case of ipq807x, getting ethernet- and wireless drivers to work (ipq60xx and ipq50xx may be looked at afterwards, it partially depends on the former) - in the case of mt7621a+mt7915e or mt7622bv+mt7915e device availability on the market (and on developers' desks).

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technically the mt7621a+mt7915e based TOTOLINK X5000R and Ubiquiti UniFi 6 LR are also supported, but they put the wifi6 wireless on the rather slow mt7721a SOC, these are more basic APs, rather than providing the performance for a high-end router.

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Do you know where would I see this work being done on ipq807x in OpenWrt? When I look at master on github here, I hardly see any work posted there, and even most of the limited amount of work I see posted there is from 12-13 months ago.

Mostly at

…but especially the ethernet/ switch situation has kind of thrown a spanner into the works.

I will receve monday my Belkin rt3200 just for be sure

The flash is Factory.bin via update software right

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Yes. Refer to the two pages I'll link below, you should read the doc/man page about it before flashing. There is no WiFi 6 support in OpenWrt yet you're better off staying OEM for probably a year or so... No one knows what the prevailing WiFi 6 router will be supported in OpenWrt yet besides maybe the top few devs. It mostly depends how progress on open source drivers goes.

Summary

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mediatek%2Fmt7622&id=linksys_e8450

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/linksys_e8450?s[]=belkin&s[]=rt3200

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Ok thanks just what is the settings here more performance you thinked

One for the Australian's.
ACMA have released a discussion paper and are welcoming consultation submissions as part of considering its approach to 6GHz (5925-7125MHz) bands for use with RLAN (wifi).
https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-04/Exploring-RLAN-use-in-the-5-GHz-and-6-GHz-bands_Discussion-and-options-paper.docx
Several options have been tabled:

  • Open the lower 500MHz of the band with revised power limits and/or additional limitations
  • Open the entire band for LPI/VLP (low potential interference/very low power) devices
  • Open the entire band for standard power devices under a DSA/AFC approach like the US
    • (is this like DFS in the 5GHz band?)

Looks like in any case, they are going to move to quickly open the lower 500MHz while considering further approaches.

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AVM FRITZ!Repeater 6000

AVM just announced their Fritz Repeater 6000. If box matrix is to be believed (https://boxmatrix.info/wiki/FRITZ!Repeater_6000) it is based upon the IPQ8074 SoC:

  • Powerful 4 x 4 tri-band repeater with Wi-Fi 6
  • 12 antennas for maximum Wi-Fi range and coverage
  • Intelligent Mesh Wi-Fi for multiple mobile devices such as TVs, game consoles
  • Extends any Wi-Fi network, from FRITZ!Box to a provider router
  • 2.5 Gbit/s and 1 Gbit/s ports for convenient networking

Seems like a nice base for a repeater.

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220 euros...a little pricey for a repeater considering for best performance you also need a master device with the same capabilities
even for converting it into a router is pricey

Yes, it is a bit pricey, but it'll probably come down in price. You don't need a main device since these have ethernet ports. But maybe more like an access point than a router.

Either way, IPQ8074 is far from working with OpenWrt :frowning_face:

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Hello everyone, I purchased the Netgear AX1800 (R6700AX) for 99 dollars. I hope this will be one of the new Wifi 6 routers that will be supported. https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-4-Stream-WiFi-Router-R6700AX/dp/B08KTXG8Q5 and tech specs https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/r6700ax/

I wouldn't hold my breath (Broadcom).

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Yeah, I also suggest to throw that one away for good.

https://fccid.io/PY320100480/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-4876128

I too have just received two LinkSys AX3200 E8450s. How may I assist in building/testing out 802.11ax support in OpenWRT? I have other network and WiFi gear, so this wouldn't be on my prod network.

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As i use a Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 with that old and buggy wifi fimware (no WPA3, no MESH ...), i just bought this AVM 6000 as an access point (LAN Bridge) and deactivated wifi on the WRT-Device ....

What can i say: My Lenovo with AX210 gets 930 mbit/s via iperf3 ... awesome ...

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930mbps is about line speed for a normal Ethernet connection. A wired one. So that is pretty good for WiFi!