On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 05:52:57PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 9.01.2024 13:29, John Crispin wrote: > > On 09.01.24 12:56, Robert Marko wrote: > > > ---SNIP--- > > > > > > > Why not 6GHz? > > > 6GHz requires an external card, and I doubt you can fit that in the > > > target price. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Robert > > > > correct. as mentioned in the email, we wanted to start out small. also > > upstream mac80211 is still missing a bunch of 11be related features. > > 6 GHz doesn't imply 802.11be, does it? I'm really not sure.
You are right, 6 GHz does *not* imply 802.11be. 802.11ax with HE rates is sufficient. However, as one is not supposed to send beacons or do actice scanning on the 6 GHz band (simply because there are too many channels...) you would need MBO features to inform clients about 6 GHz AP being available, and that doesn't yet work very well (due to missing mac80211, cfg80211 and hostapd features afaik). > > Does MediaTek have any 802.11ax solutions that cover both: 5 GHz and > 6 GHz? Maybe it'd be worth checking if that's an option and then use > voting to see if people care? Afaik the only reasonable way to implement tri-band 2.4G + 5G + 6G using MTK SoCs is to use the in-SoC WiFi MAC to connect an MT7976A frontend and use that for 2.4 GHz and 6 GHz, and then put an additional MT7915E connected via PCIe for the 5 GHz band. The only tri-band device I know is Adtran's SmartRG SDG-8632. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
