Would Wi-Fi 6 and WPA-3 work on a Netgear WAX206? Any better recommendations?

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You should know that the MT7915 AX wireless controller of Netgear WAX206 and other devices currently is affected by a severe upload speed degradation in AX mode with AX compatible Apple iOS or iPadOS devices:

[Solved] 802.11ax worse than 802.11ac with mt76 driver?

I just upgraded one of my access points from an Archer C6 v3.2 to a Redmi AX6S. Since the new device has support to 802.11ax on the 5Ghz band, I`ve decided to do some tests. While in the same room 802.11ax has a higher throughput than 802.11ac (tested with iPerf3 on a wired Linux machine and and iPhone 13Pro), the performance of 802.11ax in another room across one brick wall is much worse than 802.11ac (see results below). I had the assumption that 802.11ax would always have a superior perfor…

If you would like to use AX compatible Apple iPhones or iPads in your OpenWrt WAX206 wireless network I would limit the 5 GHz wireless mode to AC. Then you get full speed.

So, with Apple wireless devices this is a stable and well supported AC router.

I would still buy my comparable Linksys E8450 again, but I can’t use it with OpenWrt as intended because I want to use Apple AX compatible iOS devices with it. It’s a nice AC router for me.