Hi,
I like the WAX206, the Mediatek SOC and also the price. There are some other devices with same SOC like Belkin RT3200. So which one have the best Wifi coverage? Does anybody have experience with that bevor I exchange my 4 R7800 APs and become sad about this decision?
Cheers,
Nils
I have no idea what you are really asking advice on.
You have 4 R7800s and they are not giving you enough coverage so you are asking what would be better?
What are you trying to do that 4 R7800s cannot?
I do not even see the routers you seem conflicted about buying listed as supported.
Hi,
I like to convert to mt7622 device because of Wifi6 AX, because of the formfactor of the named devices without antenna and the very good support of opensource by the manufacturer. Also I can still sell the R7800 very good and found some posts that the coverage is also better with WAX206.
So this is why I am looking for the best device with mt7622 and secondly with a design without antennas for my APs.
Cheers,
Nils
I think you are wasting your money.
I doubt much is going to get you any gains and probably will have buyer's remorse.
I have a nighthawk and I have to turn the signal down to keep it from radiating all the way down the street.
You have 4 of them(?) covering your house or work? I, really, cannot imagine any space that needs 4 of them but I'd keep them for a while longer.
Reply with a rudimentary outline of your current network and include distances and how they connect to you main router.
It depends on obstacles between router and your devices, in open space you are right most homes can use just 1 or 2, but when you have walls or with some special insulating material it would be different story. For example my old home was only 700 sq. feet which is not big, however 2 of the rooms having bathrooms and store room in between which causes severe signal drop, and there is no way I can put it in middle so I have to use 2 APs (thanks for landlord having those rooms hard wired before)
I still think you will not notice any, meaningful, results but this thread kind just go bumped; maybe someone has compared the two.
I am surprised you had the opportunity to use already installed wires. That is a great LL.
That is why I asking...I found only one post in some hours of searching that said WAX206 is a little better.
Anyway, 2 days ago bought 3 used WAX206 and exchanged the R7800 now. The range is comparable, the possible bandwidth is much higher. 6 meters away from my R7800 on my couch I have highest rate of 30-40Mbyte with my laptop and Intel AX201. Now I can copy files with 100Mbyte and iperf3 shows my some more possible Wifi bandwidth. It was a good decision to move also because of the integrated antennas.
So perhaps for somebody it is helpful to have a R7800 to WAX206 comparison.
BTW. my house here in Germany is fully build of ferroconcrete so I need an AP on every floor.
A bit too late but you've made the right choice anyway.
Having both WAX202's and RT1800's (different chipsets but same case and internal antennas design of the WAX206 and RT3200), the WAX202 has better WiFi coverage, due to its better antennas, see pictures.
The RT1800/RT3200 have USB and better looks. I'm using an RT1800 as router and two WAX202's as APs. Very solid and stable network overall, 802.11r roaming works well.
WAX202:
RT3200:
It has 2 antennas?
I ask bc Nighthawk have 4 to 6 (maybe 8?) and my understanding is they will dedicate 1 to each client to avoid collisions.
Are those antennas flat in the case or did you add them? Properly placed flat antennas are great; I use them (well, one) on my client on my pi travel router.
The photos are from the FCC records, they're of the devices as they ship from the factory.
They both have 2 physical antennas attached to the case but the WAX202 (which has 2x2 WiFi) has only 1 wire going to each of them, while the RT3200 (4x4 WiFi) has 2 wires to each.
My empirical tests between an RT1800 and a WAX202 (exact same chipsets, different case and antennas, same as on the RT3200 vs. WAX206) have shown that the WAX202 has better WiFi range than the RT1800.
I do feel the difference, because without adding the 2nd one in living room, I get basically no signal at all when I walked to balcony, and even the 2.4G signal over there is very weak so I really need it.
Okay, well learn something new every day.
I did not know one antenna could isolate signals other than 2.4 and 5G.
I suppose the 'how the hell did you think WiFi radios handle both bands in me should have thought a little more. I just assumed each antenna handled one stream. It does raise the question: how do they handle beam forming to a client with only one, physical, antenna but I 'll learn that someday
That is what Nighthawks claim: if you have multiple gamers on multiple devices each gets a dedicated antenna to avoid collisions. They are supposed to recognize gaming
I'm glad they are happy and thanks for the visuals.
