802.11ax Routers

The mt7622 platform is currently one of the fastests platforms available. It can even shape SQM at linerate (1 Gbit/s). Old MIPS models may be slow, but this one definitely is not. Just focus on actual benchmarks instead of the architecture. If it performs well enough for your requirements, then just use it instead of dismissing it merely due to its architecture.

Edit: disregard, mt7622 is actually ARM and not MIPS. Both use a family of the RISC instruction set.

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Not with CAKE though right?

No, only fq_codel

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It looks like it's part of Networking Pro 1610 Platform

Now that is a beast, IPQ8078A with two QCN9074-s, and finally, somebody put a SFP+ slot on one of the 10G ports(Even heatsinked for GPON-s).

I am afraid to even see what the price is

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Supposedly there's an even better model coming
d43c-kmkptxc4470052

outrageously expensive about $900 !

Really interesting specs, but the thermal- and rf design probably won't win (m)any prices, somehow I don't think that's a good approach to it.

Well, we are talking about TP-Link, I am sure that the urge to skimp was strong despite the price.

Thermal design looks decent to me, everything is heatsinked, cant really speak about RF design

Does the appearance of the antenna design have a technical grounding or is it just aesthetics? It does look quite funky:

Reminds me of one of those Dyson fans:

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there is also the XTR7890

Anyone know if there's a German counterpart to FCC ?

This looks quite interesting, but the chipset's unknown, and I can't find any firmware (German is my 4th language, so I pretty much suck at it ...).

price often drops to ~65€ according to Idealo.

Could be used as an AP, but since there're only two 1gbit ports, you'll never exceed 1gbit, per client, but you could at least use link aggregation.

Nope, there are not requirements for pictures in EU, they only need to provide the DoC.
Its a DT semi-custom device most likely, so most likely Broadcom.

https://www.telekom.de/hilfe/geraete-zubehoer/heimnetzwerk-powerline-wlan/speed-home-wlan/firmware-speedhome-wlan

bummer, looks to be encrypted too ...

[frollic@atlantis ~]$ binwalk firmware-speed-home-wlan-010143-2-0-002-2.bin

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9814392       0x95C178        MySQL ISAM index file Version 3

[frollic@atlantis ~]$ strings -5 firmware-speed-home-wlan-010143-2-0-002-2.bin
MODEL:DT-SHWL,SW_VERSION:010143.2.0.002.2,SECURE_BOOT:SECURE

and then just garbage, nothing readable at all.

I would be shocked if they didn't encrypt it, enable secure boot etc.
Generally, HW for big ISP-s here is not worth even trying cause it was always Broadcom or Huawei based with every possible option to prevent anybody from being able to do anything except for bare minimum WEB UI probided

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Does anybody tested a Yuncore AX820 access point?

It looks like 802.11be chipsets are coming.

IPQ9574 Cortex A73 based with 4 x 2.5 GE + 5 GE + 10 GE switched ports (I assume a separate 10 GE WAN port).

IPQ9554

Found a product based on these chips: https://www.h3c.com/en/Products_Technology/Enterprise_Products/IntelligentTerminalProducts/Magic/BE18000/

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Netgear WAX202 AX1800:

SoC: MT7621A
Wi-Fi: MT7915D (AX on both 2.4/5ghz)

Searched this topic, didn’t see anything. There seem to be a few of these cheap AX1800 devices in the US market now (Belkin RT1800 is another).

There’s actually already a pull request to add support for the WAX202, but it still needs a few reviewers:

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I've contacted H3C (more precisely, I asked someone who can speak Chinese to help me contact them). Release date not before Q4 (so this might as well be a marketing gag to claim being the "first").

I don't think we'll be seeing 802.11be capable APs before 2023.

Is this something we should organize a big celebration for?

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I know QSDK is Openwrt-based, but this specific mention of Openwrt in datasheet makes me smile.

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