Wifi-qcom / WiFi-qcom-ac inconsistent country code regulations for United Kingdom

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I don’t know if anyone else in the UK has noticed this but I recently purchased a HAP AX2 to use as an access point alongside my Chateau 5g which is running the new Wifi-qcom-ac drivers. I was looking at the country code regulations between the 2 devices and noticed channels missing from the Wifi-qcom-ac driver and incorrect transmit power levels for Wifi-qcom in the U-NII-3/4 bands.

Hap Ax2 Wifi-Qcom on ROS 7.15.1

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface/wifi/radio/reg-info
country=“United Kingdom” number=0
ranges: 2402-2482/20
5170-5250/23/indoor
5250-5330/23/indoor/dfs
5490-5730/30/dfs
5735-5875/14

Chateau 5g Wifi-Qcom-AC on ROS 7.15.1

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface/wifi/radio/reg-info
country=“United Kingdom” number=0
ranges: 2402-2482/20
5170-5250/23/indoor
5250-5330/23/indoor/dfs
5490-5710/30/dfs

5ghz Channel 144 (5720) is missing from Wifi-qcom-ac
The U-NII-3 / U-NII-3/4 bands 5735-5875 are completely missing from Wifi-qcom-ac, but are available in the Wifi-qcom driver. Although in the WiFi-qcom driver the transmit power levels are totally wrong for these bands, it should look like this.

5735-5835/20 (200mw transmit power is allowed here)
5835-5875/14 (25mw transmit power here)

Any chance of adding the missing 5ghz channels to Wifi-qcom-ac and correcting the transmit power levels to comply with UK Regulations?

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Are you sure that some of differences are not due to HW differences? I.e. are you sure that ac chip in Chateau supports the UNII-3/4 channels?

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Take a look at this post http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/power-tables-for-uk-incorrect-for-5725-5850/170149/1
Yes the power levels are correct per device, this thread might shed a bit of light on why. Don’t hold your breath that they will change anything.

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The hardware is definitely capable in the AC devices.

5

Interesting read, so hopefully at some point this will get updated to be inline with the latest regulations for UK WiFi.

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If it’s any consolation, the US rules for U-NII-1 and U-NII-3 have allowed for more power for almost a decade, particularly in PTP outdoor mode on the upper end of the band. Yet all of the “designed for outdoor use” radios are arbitrarily limited to 30 or 36dBm for yet-to-be-explained reasons.

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It doesn’t make any sense though when Unifi and GLINet Wifi6 devices both transmit 200mw in the UK in those frequencies.

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There have been so many posts on here about Mikrotik wireless that there must be something in it. Lost count of the number of “Used to have XYZ router/access point and since installing Mikrotik ABC I can’t get Wi-Fi in such-and-such a room or using such-and-such device”. Wrong power tables could be part of the reason.

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Well it just makes you want to do this and strike a pose doesn’t it ?

ranges:
2402-2482/20
5170-5330/24
5250-5330/24
5490-5730/24
5735-5835/30

Loosing that much power doesn’t make any sense I agree when upgrading to ax anyway. But like I keep saying, the days of the wild west are gone man!
But 200mw as of what Ofcom says, apparently we are controlled by etsi, I thought we left Europe and all it’s woes… bwahahahahahaha hmmmm.

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Left EU but not ETSI. https://www.etsi.org/membership

How about BrexETSI?

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LOL - I’m sure Reform have stronger Wi-Fi powers in their manifesto.

12

No my next purchase will be a Flint 2

13

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt6000/

The product page is so awesome - it must be the best device ever built. Please keep us posted.

14

Do I detect sarcasm by any chance :laughing:

15

I was serious about the part with feedback. I am genuinely interested in whether the device delivers what it promises. And it promises a lot.

16

You can install OpenWRT on many Routerboards, so definitely worth trying if you think it’s “a software issue”.

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Just look at the sheer SIZE of those antenna! Size matters don’t you know. I’m reminded of Elon Musk’s electric truck. It just oozes power and ruggedness :slight_smile:

One has to agree though that the basic specs for the price look impressive. Two 2.5GHz WAN/LAN ports and USB 3. What would the Mikrotik option be? That said, in the UK, many homes are still served perfectly well by Wi-Fi 4…

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Yeah it does 200mw 5745-5805 with standard UK settings as well. I’d be interested to see what power that new AP Gigabyte091 got outputs at as well.