When MikroTik will update 11ac radio？Any news？
11ac radio is still quite new standard.
For the whole 2012 98% (figurative numbers, I don’t remember the exact figure but it was quite high) of the worldwide sales of WiFi equipment were 11n. So we could safely say that the transition towards 11n has finished. I personally don’t believe that the transition to 11ac will happen anytime soon… I might be wrong though 
Maybe after at least couple of years. That’s why I don’t expect that MT will implement 11ac in the recent future. And the industry still does not know how viable the 11ac market is
I don’t think that 98% is correct. All Apple computers support 802.11ac
MikroTik is working on .ac products for this year.
The first chip-vendors start with wave2:
This is where MuMiMO comes into the game which I think is one of the
killerfeatures of .ac.
That’s great normis!
We’ll appreciate higher speeds.
Regarding the numbers… like I wrote - just figurative. I saw a presentation recently and such high number was cited there. But I still believe that it will take at least couple of years for the 11ac standard to pick up speed. Especially in the consumer market.
That’s the beauty of the PtP and PtMP (as opposed to BYOD) environments most of this gear is used in. We don’t care what most people have as we’re building it all ourselves. 802.11ac in its later revisions will be very important (mu-MIMO for one).
The consumer market is there, just the providers aren’t. Since my local provider started delivering gigabit internet to home at decent prices, everyone suddenly wants .ac. There was no need for it until now.
There is and was definitly an market, how about streaming locally from your nas to your laptop ? goes a lot smoother with 802.11ac , so the provider aint that important there
Also backupping an Mac for instance over AC goes faster
802.11ac products is already in the market and year 2014 will be the years for it to pickup sales especially with the installation of many fibre internet access in many homes in many parts of the world now.
TP link (http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/?categoryid=201) is selling full complete wifi products while Compex (www.compex.com.sg) is selling their latest 802.11ac radio now..
It seems that something is going on with 6.11rc1 and new wireless package.
Was that photo-shopped? How come the 6.11 final doesn’t show that…
rc1 versions can contain all sorts of strange things
Do You mean strange is that we see ac is being worked on?
Or it was kind of april fool’s joke we were supposed to encounter to see smile on our faces
Either the way it’s always about money, our money. The other maker gear for 5GHz is already on the market. Assuming it would be as reliable as 24GHz model, time is really running out.
Since ar92xx ros does not support extra channel width making this obsolete chip the most effective right now in mtik.
I have to choose new solution for my network and I decided to go with products from another maker.
Is that possible to announce when will 802.11ac be supported by routeros?
There are no WISP focused AC products out of beta.
I would like to know exact date when there is support QCA9882, or you can start to move to another manufacturer’s equipment, which is not very much like to, accustomed to mikrotik.
The only answer you’ll get is: “When it’s done it’s done”. I like this policy as it does not mislead with wrong promises as some other vendors do.
Of course they are late with wireless improvements. This is not only with 802.11ac. Using 802.11n there is still room for improvements. It should be possible to move >=100MBit/s in a 20 MHz Channel and >=200MBit/s in a 40MHz channel PTMP with good conditions. Looking at the Traffic peaks of our PTMP-APs we are far from this.
Just throwin in QCA9882 will not do the job.
There’s a laundry list of wireless enhancements that we haven’t seen out of Latvia.
Just so that I’m not mistaken, we haven’t seen them out of Silicon Valley either.
technically - there wasn’t any much of interest among WISP to AC.
so probably topicstarter talks not about carrier-grade sfuff nor something for BH deployment(cause range .
Sure there is, when there’s AC stuff with GPS, I’ll be hanging it.
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As for ptmp scenario I doubt if mikrotik will ever reach level of other maker, but in ptp
I’m eager to see 80mhz-160mhz 16QAM data rates in my network.
If it would work not worse than AR9220 with 25Mhz+25Mhz channel than I wish to know when.
You may leave high hopes for gps sync and other features that will never work as promised but
give me please wider channels. please 