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When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:34 am

Atheros supports 802.11ac. Check out the link below.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5942/qual ... nd-qca986x

Both QCA986x and WCN3680 are currently sampling

Mikrotik. Are you working on making support for the 802.11ac in version 6.1? Are you working on support for the card right now?

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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jul 17, 2013 5:37 pm

We push 200+mbps TCP average. We want mikrotik. We are being forced to use airfiber. I would like to keep using mikrotik as the backhauls. I keep telling my boss 802.11ac is coming out for mikrotik with the atheros card. I will be your beta tester. I will do what ever is needed to make it work.

Mikrotik, whats the status?
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:21 pm

Nice. Have you tried the card with mikrotik yet?
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:15 pm

no :(
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:02 am

I am going to try to get pricing with them. You should try too.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:46 am

I'm interested in this as well. I am also still waiting for seamless roaming.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:42 pm

I though I used seemly roaming already with mikrotik. Use HWMP+ for mikrotik which is called Mesh. Works well. Easy to setup. Make sure you have your infrastructure setup properly. Its in the docs.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:06 am

I though I used seemly roaming already with mikrotik. Use HWMP+ for mikrotik which is called Mesh. Works well. Easy to setup. Make sure you have your infrastructure setup properly. Its in the docs.
It worked... but I decided I want 802.11ac ... that project is still on hold for right now though.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Sat Jul 20, 2013 2:37 am

802.11ac would rock with HWMP+. Mikrotik told me this.

Hello,

usually we do not use wireless linux drivers - we make our own drivers - that
gives us possibilities to add our own features like Nstreme or Nv2.
So even if there is a linux driver available it doesn't mean that we could add
support for the 802.11ac right away.
Thank you for your interest.

Regards,
Uldis

So I guess they dont want just the standard to be out. They want to make sure it works with nstreme and NV2 first before we can use it. NV2 rocks so I am fine with that. Would be nice to have a timestamp around when.

Thank you mikrotik for replying back so fast. I am very excited to get this standard going. I can just imagin the opportunity we could all have.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Tue Aug 20, 2013 7:47 pm

I just ordered a new backhaul, almost flipped when I tripped over a mini PCIe 802.11AC 3/3 Atheros card.

I almost ordered it...
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Aug 21, 2013 1:43 am

I know. I wonder if they would still work. I remember even though mikrotik said they had no support for wireless N when it first came out. I was able to get the 802.11n working via command line. I wonder if they are going to do the same for 802.11ac? So we can try it out. I am sure the kernel already supports the 802.11ac in routeros 6.0. They just need put make it work with nv2 and nstreme.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:26 am

Hello,

@dallas
Please look here and read about the RB953GS-5HnT and then please read the comment from normis here and under the link normis was posting it was written from
Qualcomm:

By pairing the QCA9880 802.11ac radio with the QCA9558 802.11n SoC, networking OEMs can build cost-effective and power-efficient 802.11ac-enabled products that are capable of aggregate PHY rates of up to 1.7 Gbps. This dual-band platform will help drive the market transition to the latest Wi-Fi technology and enable customers to deliver home routers, carrier gateways and enterprise access points (APs) in time for the first wave of 802.11ac certification, which the Wi-Fi Alliance has scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.

The QCA9558 802.11n SoC is inside of the RB953GS-5HnT! Perhaps in one of the next WLAN APs it will be inserted!
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:16 am

Same boat here. We've been swapping out our backhauls with AirFiber as well. However, 90% of our backhauls are over 10 miles, some far as 40 miles. And my NV2 PtP's are capping out big time. To the point, where I can't wait any longer. Mikrotik is falling far behind, and quick. 802.11ac cards would be an instant fix. However, doesn't sound like Mikrotik has even been trying.

What to do next?!?!? Licensed 6 or 11ghz. Very expensive, and probably a few months before something better comes out. I'll be a beta tester too if Mikrotik has anything in the works!!
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:03 am

Yeah we keep on buying more airfibers. We also keep making them shorter distances too. Right now we are passing over 200mbps tcp of real world traffic. RB2011s are not keeping up so we moved to the rb1100ahx2. We want to use 802.11ac so we can use longer links at the same speed.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:48 pm

@dallas
We want to use 802.11ac so we can use longer links at the same speed.
Sure your are right and I was looking once more around and all needed spare parts are
able to make it running, only the 802.11ac mini PCIe card with the Qualcomm-Atheros
QCA9880 802.11ac radio chip set is missing! It is a real pain.

WiBOX SA D4M5-90-17HVX = outdoor case & antenna for a 802.11ac compatible set up

RB953GS-5HnT with the Qualcomm-Atheros QCA9558 802.11n SoC soldered on board
+ 2 SFP Ports for a LAG (LACP) to handle over 1 GBit/s throughput coming from the 802.11ac set up
+ 2 mini PCIe slots with 2 SIM slots for 3G/UMTS/GPS or mini PCIe wifi cards!


I am no hardware engineer or designer but is it so hard to solder mini PCIe card with a 802.11ac chip
under the own brand? And if they would do so, do you think that would be a real goal for the WISP customers,
what I mean do you really thing they would buy those 802.11ac cards and change their beloved RB433 equipment
to the new RB953 boards? I am not a WISP customer and can´t really answer this question, so I find it better to
ask this here in a smaller round because peoples could think I would kidding them. I really don´t know the problems
of those WISP set ups!
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:58 pm

Thats a part of a wisp. As the customers grow. You have to upgrade the equipment. I climb 3-5 towers a day non stop. We grow 15-20 new customers a week. So as soon as I put it up. Its outdated. Thats why I am using airfiber. I just keep making shorter links. Which means more bandwidth.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:01 pm

Thats a part of a wisp. As the customers grow. You have to upgrade the equipment. I climb 3-5 towers a day non stop. We grow 15-20 new customers a week. So as soon as I put it up. Its outdated. Thats why I am using airfiber. I just keep making shorter links. Which means more bandwidth.
Hi dallas did you realize it?
AC Support in RouterOS
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:51 am

Thats a part of a wisp. As the customers grow. You have to upgrade the equipment. I climb 3-5 towers a day non stop. We grow 15-20 new customers a week. So as soon as I put it up. Its outdated. Thats why I am using airfiber. I just keep making shorter links. Which means more bandwidth.
Hi dallas did you realize it?
AC Support in RouterOS
Unfortunately it doesn't work with AC cards yet, probably missing driver support.
We've tested it with Compex WLE900V5-23 (Qualcomm-Atheros QCA9880 Version 2).
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:55 am

Any update of 802.11ac support in RouterOS?.

I just found the acStation AC26 from COMPEX.

http://www.compex.com.sg/brochure/acwave_brochure.pdf

.. Some one try it yet?.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:08 am

Should be soon.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:58 am

As I was imagine it, I will try the RB953GS-5HnT & the Compex WLE900VX later this year. :D
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:30 am

Yeah I can't wait.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:55 am

I tried the wle600v5-23 and I see the ar9880 in the irq but dont see the interface yet. I am using 6.15 .
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:56 am

You did enable the wireless-fp package?
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:03 am

802.11ac is not supported yet, so it will not work.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:22 pm

Yeah I did. It looks like mikrotik has the wireless interface disabled until they are finished implementing the feature. It would be cool is they could at least tease us by letting us connect with the card but dont get full performance. I have tons of Airfiber X. The reason is because I have too. We are growing way too fast. Once 802.11ac comes out and be supported I will be able to get fast speeds than the Airfiber 5. Its all about how Mikrotik enables us to fine tune each link. Making static Data rate gives us stable very fast speeds.

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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:11 pm

I dont either. 6.15 wireless-fp has AC in it. But they dont have any active drivers yet.
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:06 am

Can you email me a link for that routeros version. I cant find it. I will try it.

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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:52 am

if you have access to development version, check the portal

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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Wed Jul 09, 2014 4:36 pm

:lol: I am so happy right now
 
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Re: When will we have 802.11ac Support?

Sat Jul 12, 2014 10:02 pm

802.11ac works. I am ordering to more cards and shooting it about 10 miles. I am going to fine tune it good and see what I can pass.

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